Pushkin Square, maybe less than 1000 meters from Red Square and the Kremlin, is the cite of a significant protest. These people know the risks of challenging the regime. They’re on the street in-spite of major personal costs.
An under-discussed effect of COVID is how we kind of lost casual friends. The incidental buddies you ran into at a BBQ, holiday party or softball game- just rapture-like disappeared. Now everyone you talk to is either coworker or 1 of the 5 most important people you've ever known
Got a nice house? Nice car? Holiday twice a year? Savings? Money put aside to put your kids through university? Able to pay for a carer for your parents or build an extension to help them out in later life?
All gone in one accident or diagnoses if we let them privatise the NHS!
Every single government scandal that happens I think HOW are these people still in jobs ??? Any other career it would be OVER ??? But they just…. Go back to work ??? Wild