Paul Goble
Vienna, March 18 – Even before the onset of the current economic crisis, per capita incomes varied widely not only between Moscow and the rest of the country but also among the regions and republics themselves, a situation that most people were prepared to tolerate as long as unemployment was low and incomes rising.
But now that the number of jobless is increasing in many places and incomes are falling, fewer people are willing to put up with this pattern, especially if they are among the “losers.” And, according to the editors of “Nezavimaya gazeta,” the Russian government is not only making this situation worse but is creating conditions for new challenges to itself.
In an unsigned lead article published in yesterday’s edition, the editors of the independent Moscow newspaper argued that both “the crisis and the clumsy actions of the powers that be have given birth to new disproportions among the subjects ...
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