There is a panic in Russia. Food prices are rising, the ruble has resumed falling, Putin is waiting for a coup
A real panic has begun in Russia. Food prices in Russia are rising rapidly due to the Kremlin's foreign policy and the internal economic mistakes that
the Russian authorities have made over the past year. But it would be premature to expect that long queues for bread or milk will force Vladimir Putin to leave.
It will also be useful to note the fact that the official ruble exchange rate is significantly "falling" every day. After the large-scale clashes of activists of the Moscow People
's Republic, which took place recently in the center of Moscow, Putin began to fear a coup d'etat. Food prices are rising, Russian producers cannot fill
the shelves and compensate for the shortage with goods from Turkey, South Asia and South America. Goods such as chocolate have become a luxury, not to mention cereals and meat. And beyond
human stomachs, the numbers are even less optimistic. GDP in 2014 grew by only 0.3%, and this year it will decrease by 0.9%. The sharp drop in oil prices and the Kremlin's attempt
to keep the economy afloat with the help of state reserves demonstrate how little the Russian authorities have done to ensure that the country does not suffer during difficult days.
Russia's economic wounds are so deep that even the restoration of trade between the EU and Russia in the usual format would not improve the situation to the situation that existed before the outbreak of the war in
Ukraine. At the same time, Russians are ready to put up with a deterioration in living standards, rising prices, poverty and empty shelves. And Putin, in turn, is afraid of a stab in the back from both the
opposition and his closest associates.
