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"On the other hand, the Russian Orthodox Church, quite justifiably, sees 1917 as the year militant atheism triumphed and nearly destroyed religious life in Russia. At the same time its condemnation of the Communist regime that ruled in Russia for the best half of the 20th century is not wholehearted. Patriarch Kirill regularly calls on the Russians to recognize the ‘positive sides’ of the Soviet period of history..."

"...What could have been the year of an honest national conversation about overcoming the tragic past and charting a course towards the future turned into 12 months of tepid enforcement of an imaginary national unity by the leadership that fears historical truth and likes to construct historical myths."

Russia’s GDP is only slightly higher than that of Mexico.

Apparently they have mucho (a Rooskie term for Mueller to ponder...) legacy military hardware.

Konstantin von Eggert is a longtime Russian journalist from the firm Communist controlled days of Izvestia and Pravda to modern Leftist Russian Journalism and agencies. He runs with the European Elitist Globalist Intelligentsia, and cares about average Ivan and his family as much as American Democrats and Republicans care about Joe Average and his family.

Konstantin is dismayed that a Russian leader would try to bring Russians together instead of set them against each other.

Likely Russia will have to work very hard for unity until the portions of the population that built their lives under Communism age out and die off to rid Russia of the old influence.

Russia was the first victim of Bolshevik Communism, and the first culture to knock it 's evil influence back a whole Hell of a lot after eighty years in power. I may take 'em eighty years to get rid of all of it. At least they're actively trying.