Russia political/pandemic update: Russia-West split to remain unreconcilable

RUSSIA ECONOMICS - Report 06 Sep 2022 by Evgeny Gavrilenkov and Alexander Kudrin

Sad news came on August 30, 2022, as thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, its first and last president, Mikhail Gorbachev, passed away aged 91. His death looked symbolic amid this year’s developments in Russia as the country left behind its thirty-year period of some kind of partnership with the West. The views of the West and the present generation of Russian politicians are incompatible, and any verbal interaction is in effect an accusation of the other side and a demonstration of self-righteousness and inflexibility that can only lead to bigger problems. So far, tensions are on the rise, and the information space is being permanently polluted, therefore heating up the debate, contaminating the discussion atmosphere and turning into a kind of geopolitical pandemic.

Russian society is seemingly ready for a stand-off with the West and a long-lasting military conflict in Ukraine, implying that the divide with the West can only deepen. It means more sanctions will come, and people are generally ready to face them. Apart from a limited number of extremely wealthy individuals, the stand-off between Russia and the West and the related sanctions have affected mostly the middle class. Part of this group in Russian society may become increasingly anti-Western.

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