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Originally Posted by mrmarcman
I thought we were talking about Ukraine and not Russia. It is not so black and white by the way.
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I thought we were talking about both and I thought you said this:
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there is no middleclass in Ukraine..same in Russia....10% are superrich....
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Moscow is not Russia. 12 million people is not so much compared to 140+ million people.
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Moscow population is over 15 million people + Moscow Oblast. So the whole Moscow region is about 25 millions of citizens which is about 18% of whole Russian population. Also don't forget about other big cities like Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Sochi, Ufa, Novosibirsk etc.
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Go to a village, and you will see old women that is riding a horse and a carriage.
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There are no villages in Russia. They are dead long time ago. Literately and unfortunately - Putin has finally killed them. The overage village in Russia looks like a few houses where local grandpas, grandmas and alcoholics live their last days. If you look at the space map of Russia at night, you will see that almost all the population lives in the cities. Mostly in the big ones (1+ million citizens).
The most of territory is unpopulated like in Australia and Canada:
