#ReadingRussia Today one Russian paper reports that “Russians’ anxiety has increased due to uncertainty, a lack of money, the economic crisis and a decline in production.” Another writes about an increase in “depression, anxiety & stress disorders” in Russia. Steve Rosenberg for BBC News



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15 comments

  1. If they’re just getting depressed, it seems the Russians process their systemic issues as personal failures, because they’ve been brainwashed out of making any connections between their misery and the state…

    Concerning all that discontent is just getting bottled up.

  2. Isn’t it nice that we cannot read Russia Today but the BBC can handpick articles they think we ought to hear.

  3. Well if they gave a fuck they’d revolt irrespective of being Putin slaves

  4. Russians would eat grass. If they knew that “glorious” Russia is waging some imperialistic war thousands of kilometers from their home. Vodka is for anxiety and depression.

  6. It is extremely annoying to hear Russians complaining about the economic anxiety they are inflicting on themselves by persisting in a costly invasion. The only legitimate reason they should have for depression is the culpability of continuing slaughtering their neighbours.

    And yet Putin’s army has an endless stream of volunteers to perpetuate the killings.

  7. Sounds like those journalists ought to avoid hanging out near windows

  8. Is that “anxiety” why Russia no longer reports births and deaths?

    Because I remember when the DDR (Eastern Germany) stopped reporting suicides, and it was not because there were too few.

  10. This is how Russia has always worked. Authoritarian country that doesn’t care about its people and locks people up if you stand up. People lose hope, get depressed, numb themselves with alcohol, or lash at anyone weaker either in personal life, or by cheering when the state does it to other countries

  13. The BBC is publicly funded but it’s not controlled in any sense by the government. Its editors are independent and it’s free from propaganda.

    You’ll have to cite example to convince anyone otherwise.

  14. Not enough to go after their regime for sending all their children to the meet grinder in a pointless war none of them wanted I guess.

  15. Europe’s obssesion with Russia is correlated to the stagnation of the continent

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