Our attempt to connect Russiansโ weak support for liberal political values to the economic pain caused by market reforms a generation earlier.
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Our attempt to connect Russiansโ weak support for liberal political values to the economic pain caused by market reforms a generation earlier.
Great piece for Russia watchers, from Roman Badanin
www.proekt.media/en/guide-en/...
OK, but certainly Hesburger burgers would be okay.
Itโs at the top of the pile on my nightstand. On ch 5 and should finish later this week! Very much enjoying!
Very interesting. Any chance you can post the link, Jeremy?
Such a terrific documentary! The best I saw at our local film festival last week!
... that the wartime uptick in life satisfaction is concentrated among the groups most receptive to Russiaโs imperial project in Ukraine: ethnic Russians, older citizens, and residents of regions whose pre-invasion economies were positioned to benefit from an expanding war machine. 3/3
Is it the government's โbread and circusesโ spending the article highlights, or Russia's surprising economic resilience? Likely the latter, and perhaps a bit of the former. Yet thereโs more. My ongoing research with BOFIT economist Sinikka Parviainen shows ... 2/3
Croquet, Anyone? Making Moscow a Vast Fun Zone to Divert Minds From War. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/w...
Levadaโs recent life satisfaction numbers -- the highest in the past 30 years -- almost certainly capture something real about the Russian publicโs wartime mood. What's going on? 1/3
An incredibly courageous, occasionally humorous, and deeply moving documentary about wartime Russian society.
www.imdb.com/title/tt3496...
Full article: When the party line changes: state media, immigration, and public opinion in Russia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Middlebury alum, John Overstreet, turns his senior thesis into a neat publication with help from colleague, Kristina Sargent, and another Middlebury alum, Olive Jin.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/w... Can Russiaโs Economy Withstand Trumpโs Threats to Impose Sanctions? - The New York Times
In my two summers as a grad student in Moscow in the 1990s, picking up the dayโs copy of the MT was a particular highlight. Many years later, when one of his sons attended Middlebury, I had the good fortune of meeting Derk and sharing with him how much the MT had meant to me.
War economy boosts life satisfaction for ethnic Russians and residents of military-industrial regions
Read Sinikka Parviainen's new @suomenpankki.fi blog post ๐ www.bofbulletin.fi/en/blogs/202...
#Russia #households #sanctions #war #bofbulletin
Eg @bofit.suomenpankki.fi Policy Brief 8/2025 mentioned @willhpyle.bsky.social interviewed
on.ft.com/4mEFqny Vladimir Putinโs war economy is cooling, but Russians still feel richer
Middlebury's recent round of austerity measures are a blow to our community and come at the exact wrong moment, when we should be preparing to rally together to defend higher education in the US.
www.middleburycampus.com/article/2025...
publications.bof.fi/handle/10024...
With surveys through Dec. 2023, we compare Russiansโ pre- and post-invasion well-being, spending, and savings. Happiness is up for ethnic Russians and residents of regional capitals. Household finances are more stable across the board. Durable spending is down.
Got it. I'll buy it as a spring birthday present then rather than as an Xmas present. Congratulations, btw. It looks like a great book!
Where? On Amazon, it's only kindle and ebook.
www.amazon.com/States-Play-...
Is this book coming out in hard copy?
I just joined too. We seemed to be at a tipping point on X.