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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum
GLD 445.60-10.1%Jan 30 4:00 PM EST
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To: bart13 who wrote (122871)10/12/2016 6:05:03 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Read Replies (1) of 219938
 
While Russians are patriotic, Putin's ban on food-imports from the EU and other nations around the world have created food price inflation of greater than 15% annually.

This is a staggering hit to most Russians whose incomes have been cut sharply as oil price declines have hiot the Russian state coffers hard. Putin has imposed large salary reductions for government workers. This rankles especially as Putin's regime becomes more visibly corrupt in many areas of the average Russian's lives. Putin's nuclear moves have particularly added to the popular feeling that Putin is headed in the wrong direction, a legacy of the Soviet mindset.

Virtually none of this discontent is expressed in the Kremlin-controlled press - which Putin expanded to 100% of all Russian news outlets two years ago. Expressing anti-Putin sentiment in an internet blog can lead to a large fine and possible jail sentence, even if that sentiment is anti-Muslim and thus anti-Putin who likes Muslim friends in Turkey, Chechnya and Syria - as Anton Nosik discovered last week.

Friends living in Moscow tell me Putin is now as popular as Brezhnev was not. Of course Putin fan-boys like yourself will never think this possible, primarily because you don't live in Russia and don't suffer under the problems Putin has created.
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