Property – Johnson's Russia List

Five Rules for Living Through and Looking Beyond the Putin Stagnation

June 22, 2016 JRL Russia List Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Education, Academia, History, Soviet Union, Media, Internet, Social Media, Television, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections, Russia & the West, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

Map of Russia and Russian Flag adapted from images at state.gov

(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, June 20, 2016) Those who lived through the Brezhnev stagnation, commentator Dmitry Gubin says, know that “when the chances for change for the better don’t exist, one must particularly carefully filter information and choose one’s strategy of behavior.” Now, Russia is in another such period, and to help them, he offers five […]

Nearly Half of All Russians Now Say They Can Live without Relying on the State, Sociologists Find

April 29, 2016 JRL Russia List Economy, Business, Investment, Trade, Politics, Government, Protests, Elections

(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, April 27, 2016) Given everything that has occurred in Russia over the past five years, few have noticed what can only be described as “a quiet revolution”: the percentage of Russians who say they don’t need to rely on the state has increased from 34 to 44 percent, with an ever rising […]