Putin raises the retirement age, inflaming the street. Will he find an external enemy to shore up support?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-pensions-and-the-risk-of-war-1539730575
When disgruntled Russian voters decided to express their anger at a five-year increase in the retirement age, they handed victory in key polls to a nationalist party whose leader routinely urges the Kremlin to carry out nuclear strikes against Moscow’s foes.Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s Liberal Democratic
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/putins-stooge-suddenly-wants-the-leading-role-hsghptspp
U.S. sanctions have driven the price of oil and the ruble apart—leaving Russia with expensive crude and a cheaper currency, a combination that is helping its economy.
https://www.svoboda.org/a/29546828.html
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3772350
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3771740
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3771803
https://www.vedomosti.ru/opinion/columns/2018/10/16/783751-kogda-armiya
https://ru.krymr.com/a/iz-rossii-razdavit-cheloveka-legko/29544523.html
https://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2018/10/16/5bc4a38f9a794798669c5ec3