#russiansociety — Public Fediverse posts

"... From the war and sanctions to classified budgets and self-censorship, this video examines how secrecy can protect not only national security, but also the image of a state that does not want its citizens or the outside world to measure what is really happening."

#Russia #hiddenData #RussianSociety #RussianEconomy #RussianElites #Corruption #Informationwarfare #WarEconomy #RussoUkraineWar #RussiaUkraineWar #Censorship #Propaganda #Secrecy #InformationControl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0FOlH89yjc

Steve Rosenberg: "Today one Russian newspaper doubts that Vladimir Putin will attend the G20 summit in Miami and predicts “an even tougher and bloodier phase of the Ukraine conflict this winter.” Its headline: “Ahead Russia has not peace, but war.” #ReadingRussia "

#Russia #RussianSociety #RussianEconomy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jwx8nC6RZo

"The Russian society is broken. The Ukraine war divided Russia and the opinions of Russians, to the point where even family members stop talking to each other. Z Russians hate anti Putin Russians and vice versa. However, the societal divide goes even further. Often even outside Russia, Russians who left avoid other Russian immigrants or people from other Post Soviet countries like Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Baltics and so on. ..."

#Russia #RussianSociety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFRHh9UnkFA

"... Elvira Bary follows Russia’s war money from the moment it lands in a recruit’s bank account. Soldiers use it to pay debts, renovate homes, buy cars, and support their families—but the money also gets swallowed by front-line expenses, commanders, corruption, scammers, criminal networks, and a consumer boom increasingly dependent on imported goods. The result is a strange war economy ..."
#Russia #RussianEconomy #RussianSociety #RussianSoldiers #WarEconomy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpvFvlbs0eY

"... Is Russophobia a propaganda tool of the Kremlin? Does the Russian government want Russians to think they live in a besieged fortress and that only Vladimir Putin can protect Russia from its enemies? ..."

#Russia #RussianSociety #RussianPolitics #Russianaggression
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-gobZaVUzY

Maria Popova: "Imagine describing Russia’s domestic moral decay and its aggression against Ukraine as a “conservative turn”. I understand the desire to avoid hyperbole in academic writing but we also need to avoid ridiculous inaccurate euphemisms. They normalize and whitewash what russia is doing."

#Russia #RussianSociety #RussianAggression #AcademicWriting

Anton Barbashin: "For over two decades, Putin’s public appearances and comments typically reassured the Russian public. He "came across" as more reasonable than ordinary Russian bureaucrats.
Lately he has been doing the exact opposite — and it does not appear scripted."

#Russia #Putin #RussianSociety
https://ridl.io/putin-on-a-roll/

"... Elvira Bary explains why bribery, kickbacks, stolen budgets, and political protection are not accidental flaws in Putin’s Russia but essential tools of control. ... Putin does not merely rule over Russia’s corruption machine. He acts as its guarantor, deciding who may profit, who remains protected, and who suddenly becomes a criminal. ..."

#Russia #Corruption #PutinsRegime #Putin #RussianSociety #RussianEconomy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfMoFWq7T64

"... Elvira Bary unpacks the powerful forces shaping Russia’s next decade — from demographic collapse and brain drain to economic decline, global distrust, and China’s shifting expectations. Instead of predicting the future, she maps the real constraints that will define it, and the competing dreams of elites, ordinary citizens, reformers, and foreign powers. ..."

#Russia #RussianSociety #RussianEconomy #Demography #Geopolitics #EuropeanSecurity #China #WorldPolitics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB0hHQj618Y

"... Elvira Bary follows the fictional but thoroughly documented journey of Sergei, an ordinary Russian man drawn into the army by debt, shame, family obligations, and a signing bonus larger than anything he could earn at home.
... the cold reality of Russia’s disposable army—and the moral price of accepting a criminal job because it appears to be the only way out."

#Russia #PutinsWar #RussianSociety
#WarEconomy #RussianEconomy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykoz6O_-a1U

Steve Rosenberg: "In this extended #ReadingRussia: Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev who died four years ago today. I read some of the new textbooks for Russian schools. And the petrol queues have made it into the joke pages of Russian newspapers. Plus, a long overdue spring clean."

#Russia #Gorbachev #RussianSociety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkxRa1M_x9A

"... The video explores why Russians did not revolt, how authoritarian systems destroy political agency, when silence becomes complicity, and why blaming an entire nation can allow the most guilty people to disappear into the crowd. Russia must answer for its crimes, but justice requires precise accountability based on choice, knowledge, opportunity, and power—not equal guilt assigned by passport."

#Russia #RussianElites #RussianSociety #IndividualResponsibility #guilt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocgq1oBUmW0

Steve Rosenberg: "Spotted in a Russian newspaper: “The logic of this war is becoming more and more harsh: either they will destroy Russia, or we will crush them.” A week of petrol queues, growing geo-political tension & no end in sight to Russia’s war in Ukraine. #ReadingRussia "

#Russia #RussianSociety #RussianEconomy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCCBjZuusbw

"... Because Putinism is a symptom of these deep societal foundations rather than their sole cause, the removal of a single leader will not alter Russia's aggressive trajectory without a fundamental cultural and historical transformation. ..."

#Russia #RussianSociety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXf8h-8ufp8

"... Elvira Bary explains how political connections created the Russian oligarchs, why their wealth never became independent power, and how Putin forced them to choose between obedience and destruction. Western sanctions damaged their fortunes, but they also closed many escape routes and made Russia’s richest men even more dependent on the Kremlin. ..."

#Russia #RussianOligarchs #RussiaEconomy #PutinsWar #RussiaUkraineWar #RussianSociety #Putin #Sanctions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57apNa5E-A

"... This video examines the current state of the Russian economy through the lens of three personal stories from ordinary citizens. These accounts provide a grounded perspective on the systemic challenges and economic vulnerabilities present in the region today, offering a practical way to assess how global shifts might affect your personal finances. ..."

#Russia #RussianEconomy #RussianSociety #DutchDisease #Oligarchs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klyil-3ZPrs

"Yabloko, the only registered Russian political party that opposes the invasion of Ukraine, has been barred from next month’s parliamentary elections.

Those who took to the streets to protest were warned they would be sent to the front unless they dispersed.

Welcome to Putin's ‘democracy’."
- EUvsDisinfo

#Russia #Democracy #RussianElections #Putin #RussianSociety

Jason Jay Smart on why Putin's fear of his own military is spiraling into his complete loss of control over Russia...

#Putin #Russia #RussianElites #RussianSociety #RussianArmy
https://jasonjaysmart.substack.com/p/putins-fear-of-his-army-is-creating

"🔥 Sitting in a bunker, Putin's paranoia about his military is backfiring. Now, readily manipulated by his own intelligence services, he makes one bad move after another.

👉 What the dictator believes is "securing" his future is sealing his fate."
- Jason Jay Smart

#Putin #FSB #Russia #RussianElites #RussianSociety #PutinsWar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OszlV7c6uqY

"... Elvira Bary explains why Russian officials, state media, and ordinary citizens often deny obvious reality — not because they cannot see it, but because admitting failure is dangerous in a system built on status, fear, and loyalty. From Soviet displays of fake glory to Putin’s rewritten war goals, from “gestures of goodwill” to “temporary difficulties,” Russia has learned to survive by renaming defeat, shortages, explosions, and disaster. ..."

#Russia #RussianSociety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1hfqot34pE

"The russian society had no problem with their army exterminating Mariupol, committing the Bucha massacre, mass murders in Izium, & nuclear terrorism, bombing of Okhmatdyt hospital, abducting Ukrainian children, or torturing POWs...

But the loss of Wildberries? That's where the line must be drawn."
- Olena Halushka

#RussianSociety #Wildberries #RussiaUkraineWar

"... Elvira Bary looks at Russia’s ruling class and asks why the people at the top do not stop a war that is clearly damaging their own country. The answer is not patriotism, strategy, or faith in victory. It is fear. Russia’s elites live inside a system of protection, clans, stolen money, selective law, and dependence on Putin as the ultimate guarantor. Continuing the war is dangerous, but ending it could become an audit: ..."

#Russia #RussianElites #RussianSociety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkYJiCE-jPk

"As Ukraine attacks Crimea, Moscow, and Russian industry in general, something is happening inside Russia's inner circles. People are tired of losing money, refusing to lend to the government, and beginning to push back against the war in Ukraine. It's a scenario with striking historical parallels, and has all the fingerprints of a classic coup scenario. But could it really happen?"

#Russia #Putin #RussianSociety #PoliticalPsychology #RussianElites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSCgzz0-IjM

"... When people live in a distorted reality for a very long time, they lose their understanding of cause and effect. At first, propaganda distorts their worldview. Then people begin distorting it themselves, because it feels safer. It’s safer not to speak, not to think, not to know. If you try hard enough not to know something, eventually you won’t. ..."

#Russia #RussianSociety #PoliticalPsychology #RussianPsychology #Propaganda
https://substack.com/@romansheremeta/note/c-300893456?r=33vjov&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

"For years, Russians ignored missiles falling on Ukrainian homes. Now one drone hits a warehouse near them, and they're asking why civilians have to suffer. The tragedy isn't just the hypocrisy - it's how completely they've erased #Ukraine from the story."
- Hanna Liubakova

#Russia #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar #RussianSociety

"The strikes on Russian Wildberries facilities just got so much worse, with Ukraine striking 2 additional facilities last night. ... It's a devastating blow for the Russian economy, the Russian military, and also for the psychology of Russian citizens who are feeling the consequences of the war in Ukraine like never before."
#Russia #RussiaEconomy #RussianSociety #WarIsComingHome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha64i7l0ajo

"Get the explanation of the psychology behind Russia’s last remaining superweapon: the belief that one final threat, one miracle strike, or one hidden force can still save Putin’s failed war......"
- Elvira Bary

#Russia #Putin #psychology #RussiaUkraineWar #RussianPropaganda #NuclearThreats #NuclearBlackmail #WonderWeapon #Wunderwaffe #RussianSociety #RussianPolitics #WarPsychology #RussianReality #PoliticalPsychology #propaganda #RussianCollapse #PostWarRussia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVUjzRpVhAE

"Russia’s MAX app is a key tool in the Kremlin’s efforts to tighten control over digital life and suppress civil society. VK, the company responsible for developing it, is now under EU sanctions."
- EUvsDisinfo‬

#Russia #RussianSociety #EUvsDisinfo
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/the-digital-iron-curtain-2-0-how-the-max-messenger-is-reshaping-russias-communication-space/

"... Ukraine is trying to reintegrate defenders while the war is still ongoing. But Putin’s Russia faces a darker challenge: poor recruits, prison soldiers, trauma, resentment, propaganda, broken institutions, and a state that cannot admit its “heroes” may also become a threat. If Russia fails, the war may not end. It may simply move from the front into Russian streets, homes, police stations, local politics, and criminal networks."
#Russia #RussianSociety #PostWarRussia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nEl-GEQOpg

"... Elvira Bary explains why many Russians fear and distrust the West — and how Putin’s regime turns those fears into a powerful tool of control. Russian anti-Western paranoia did not appear out of nowhere. It draws on real historical wounds, NATO expansion, nuclear insecurity, fear of national collapse, memories of the 1990s, colonial history, and the myth that the West has always hated Russia. ...”

#Russia #RussianSociety #propaganda #PutinsRegime #NATO #theWest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdIqQCaXI1A