Actually, not really. Just the 90s disaster. Sure there can be remnants now and then but most of save for the wealth inequality, most Russians problems today are their own.
Nah, I treat you like Neocon supporter.
http://www.therussianoligarchs.com/meet-the-oligarchs/
Abramovic lives in London.
Potanin is still in Russia.
Prokhorov is only formally in Russia, actually spends most of his time in New York.
Berezovski, UK based.
Gusinski moved to Israel.
Usmanov is in Switzerland.
Deripanska and Tariko are still in Russia.
Gutseriyev is another one that got caught evading taxes but eventually settled and since 2010 he was allowed back to Russia.
Khodhorkovsky got caught, ended up in jail, now lives in Switzerland.
So, only 3 never had to leave Russia. 1 was allowed back, 1 was jailed, 6 are abroad.
There are obviously others, but it's hard to claim ''Putin has the support of the oligarchs''. Those who are still allowed to Russia, are so under specific conditions.
So, an aggression on a strategic and economic ally of Russia is not an aggression on Russia?
Again, what exactly do you expect them to do? Sit down and let the US install enemy governments all around it? Now I'm the one befuddled.
As for the rest, it's not my fault if the Russian foreign policy makes more sense than the continuous nonsense done by the West.
You know, maybe if in Syria we weren't actually allied with Salafist Saudi Arabia and actually cooperated with Al Qaeda, aka the big boogeyman of the 2001-2010 decade, I'd also say that Western foreign policy makes sense.
But it doesn't. We work with our alleged worst enemies to overthrow a government we don't like and we are ready to hand that country to people who backstabbed us multiple times and regularly commit terrorist attacks in the West. How the does that make an iota of sense?
You can say ''yes but Russia is allied with Iran''. Shia Muslims do not commit terrorist attacks in Russia. Their alliance makes sense. Their actions are logic.
Are Ukrainians and Georgians a threat to Russia? Why are there double standards for Russia and the West?
Again fair difference. Russia asks a country to let it build a base, all good. The US asks, when it gets no as an answer it starts plotting regime change and eventually executes it with poor results.
Iranians overthrew the Western backed government on their own. Ukrainians did not overthrow the Russian backed government on their own.