Posted 19 апреля 2021, 07:22
Published 19 апреля 2021, 07:22
Modified 24 декабря 2022, 22:36
Updated 24 декабря 2022, 22:36
Well-known political analyst Alexey Chadayev described his impressions of a trip to the Russian regions:
I am now on a long business trip to regions of varying degrees of depression. I am writing these lines to the sound of bottles being smashed on the asphalt by fellow citizens from behind the window as part of an active Sunday fight against depression. Several observations.
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Readers tried to explain the reasons for this state of affairs in the comments to this post:
- One of the reasons for the growth of regional identity lies on the surface: the disruption of the transport connectivity of the territory of the Russian Federation. People travel less within the country (compare the number of local flights in some Novokuznetsk in Soviet times, dozens of flights a day and now there is actually ONE regular flight to Moscow). And the Novokuznetsk agglomeration is a millionaire. "Air traffic is not economically feasible." The number of trains from Novokuznetsk / via Novokuznetsk also significantly decreased. and so not only in Novokuznetsk. For a huge country, transport connectivity is a strategic indicator that the state should monitor if it does not want to collapse.
- It is strange (or not strange?) That neither the authorities nor the opposition show anything resembling the "image of the future" of the country, its place in the world. And at least some principles, ways of transition into this future, qualitative changes are necessary for this, ways to get out of the industrial and economic raw material track. If someone really wants and knows how to get out, of course...