Radical Change Terrifies Russians More Than Economic Pain – Economist Correspondent

✅ Russian parliamentary elections are an important legitimizing ritual;
✅ “Results themselves aren’t going to make a huge difference when it comes to the country’s policies and politics;”
✅ The elections are unlikely to change much as the country’s elite is preparing for the upcoming presidential election in 2018;
✅ “The idea of radical change, the idea of drastically shifting the country’s course, the country’s policies is more troubling and more terrifying than the economic pain that some Russians are feeling today.”

Hromadske’s Nataliya Gumenyuk and KyivPost’s Josh Kovensky spoke to Noah Sneider, The Economist’s Moscow Correspondent via Skype during The Sunday Show on September 18th, 2016 in Kyiv.

Read: http://en.hromadske.ua/articles/show/radical_change_terrifies_russians_more_than_economic_pain
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJAxzsIkkqg&list=PLPnX89fQLdsnTsiDOpYtxvMJZobCjqBC-&index=4