How Close Is Russia to Collapse?
8th March 2022
Russia is now as closed off to the world as the Soviet Union was before Mikhail Gorbachev made his first tentative steps towards glasnost more than forty years ago. Pretty much all the progress that post-Soviet Russia had made towards becoming a “normal” country has been reversed within the space of two weeks. Vladimir Putin’s presumed legacy — of stability, predictability and hugely improved living standards for the vast majority of Russians — is vanishing before their eyes.