Anton Gerashchenko on Bluesky story about a strike at a nuclear plant with documentation:
https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3m56ndvbujs2i
The post contains video from the situation.
As I’ve been posting many times before, many workers in Russia are behind on payments. People working in factories being 3 months behind is not uncommon.
Anna from Ukraine explains the situation here. She is a good source IMO, because her English is excellent, and being Ukrainian she understands Russian, and makes frequent news updates about the Ukrainian war from various perspectives.
Anna Danylchuk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6EQ0ubmsIk
Inside Russia on youtube was first to report on the Russian population beginning to have had enough to a degree they are actually beginning to complain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoR5_bJywWQ
I’ve claimed before I don’t think Putin will last through the winter, and I see this as the first signs that the Russian people is about to have had enough.
The story reported by Anna and Gerashchenko tells that the workers are at least 2 months behind on wages, they were promised transportation to work, something that is important because of the lack of fuel, and public transport becoming unreliable. But they do not get the promised transportation. They were also promised 1 hot meal per day, but do not receive that either.
Finally in their homes, they are out of water and heat.
This is the economic and infrastructure collapse many have predicted was inevitable, that is now beginning to really show. And it isn’t even really winter yet!
PS: The moderators removed my previous post with false accusations, so here it is posted again according to their demands.
On one hand, yes. OTOH, if there’s one thing the Russian state has proven itself capable of doing is shambling on zombie-fashion when people in functioning countries and economies would expect it to have collapsed. It’s as if the things we take for granted as the underpinnings of a state/economy/society have only ever been Potemkin-village-style decoration in Russia (“see, we have parliaments and stock markets and safety standards and celebrity tabloids and brunch bars with fashionable decor, just like you!”), while the real load-bearing elements buried beneath them are something far older and grimmer.
Beside the point, but; Why would stock market be neccessary or expected for a civilization? They are more of a unfortunate side-effect of america’s turbo-capitalism. Unfortunate, because it raised the broken, greedy, narciccistic individuals currently in power.
Neither are celebrity tabloids or brunch bars (or pop music or fashion boutiques or bike lanes or football leagues or a lot of other things), but people in the west look at these things as signifiers of modernity and familiarity. The Russians are just like us because they also pay for car insurance and play Clash Of Clans on their phones.
Soviet Russia didn’t need one. Look how belligerent they got after the stock market was introduced!