Is Russia a Parallel Experiment?

People seem extremely happy with improved economic opportunities and are just not all that interested in what many intellectuals like us consider to be extremely valuable things like free speech and open elections. I think it would be interesting question how long Russians are satisfied or deputant if you can't give them something like Chinese levels of development. You said that you surprised at how many non-ethnic Russians are pro non- ethnic so Armenians, you know Kazakhs, people who are Jewish or part Jewish, they're fairly reliably anti-Putin. And those who are just what you might call ethnic Russian or close to pure ethnic Russian are far more pro-Putin than you might have thought in the 1990s they would