Mark Adomanis stood up for Russia
According to the American capitalist press, there are rumors that all Russians will soon die out. Someone died yesterday, someone is bent today, and the rest, staying in a terrible blues, are preparing to leave the vale of sorrow and depart for the best worlds tomorrow. Progressive journalist Mark Adomanis decided to look at the Rosstat website and made sure that the Russian people are very much alive.Mark Adomanis is a person who supplies materials to a magazine. "Forbes". In his new article, he notes that the American leading media (mainstream media) like the New York Times are promoting the idea that more and more Russians live in fear of their government. And this idea has received wide recognition.
For example, in the New York Times newspaper mentioned above, Masha Gessen devotes articles to the relevant topic “with some regularity”. And Hesse is not alone in his endeavors. Julia Ioffe also writes a lot about the “depressing and crushing souls” repressions of the Russian authorities. A lot of other Western journalists are engaged in the same thing, comrade Adomanis points out. Already connected to them are writers with analysts.
The latter agreed to the allegations that the Kremlin controls the country in such a terrible form that it actually undermined the will of the Russian people to life.
Is every western journalist sure that Russians are becoming more depressed? No, Adomanis notes, but it is fair to say that most Western observers agree that Russians are poor and that the situation is “rapidly deteriorating.”
Further, with his inherent objectivity, Adomanis observes that this is “plausible.” Russians react to the “endless presidency of Putin” by some kind of “mass psychosis”. The journalist draws a parallel with 1970 and the beginning of 1980, when Soviet society was in a state of stagnation. The Russian people in those years "really" went through something similar to a "nervous breakdown": this manifested itself, as is clear from statistical data, in the growth of alcoholism, suicide and murder.
However, what today? Is the number of suicides growing in Russia?
Adomanis suggests not to trust "intuition", but try to judge impartially. Here, say, the mentioned depression. There should look at the dynamics of suicide. At the same time, the author notes that this indicator does not give an “ideal” picture, because suicide can be committed under the influence of various cultural, religious and political factors. However, analyzing data over a long period of time, the columnist notes, can help identify a trend.
It is widely known that the number of suicides begins to grow when the economy is working poorly or when unemployment is rising. And the same number gets a downward trend when the economy is working well. In addition, it can be said with confidence: when the suicide rate is growing rapidly, something in society goes very badly. It is also safe to say that the rapidly declining suicide rate says: something positive is happening in society.
Further, Adomanis cites data on the number of suicides in Russia in 1992-2014. (see below the picture from Forbes; it makes no sense to comment on it).
The observer notes that he does not intend to downplay the real suffering of people in Russia, especially the suffering of the political opposition. And she does not want to say that “everything in Russia is wonderful.”
In Russia, the journalist writes, the level of suicides is still very high compared with Western countries. However, it is important to note at the same time that Russians, on average, are much less inclined to kill themselves than they did only ten years ago. That is, certain factors make the Russians turn to acts of suicide less and less.
It is quite possible, the author admits, that in four years or in five years, the political and economic situation in Russia will worsen - to the extent that the suicide curve goes up. But, Adomanis insists, today Russians seem to be much more satisfied with their lives than at any other point in the graph over the past two decades.
Recall, in another material M. Adomanis, also illuminated on "Military Review", a certain G. Kasparov was criticized, saying that he “for some reason thinks” that the “Iraq problem” is connected with Putin.
Mark Adomanis quoted Garry Kasparov, making an example of a political fallacy from the statement of a chess player. The observer wrote in the same magazine Forbes that in the field of politics Mr. Kasparov has many serious gaps. This man, Adomanis writes, “is obsessed with personal hatred of Vladimir Putin,” and she (hatred) is “so strong” that it prevents her bearer from “making sound assessments.”
As a recent example of such misconceptions, Adomanis cited Kasparov’s assertion that the militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant were to blame for the seizure of northern Iraq ... Putin:
"For some reason it seems to me that the problem of Iraq is connected with the fact that Putin, by his unilateral actions, destroyed the foundations of global security ... If not for the aggressive and negative influence of Putin, other problems, such as Iraq’s, would not have manifested themselves with such urgency."
Objective Adomanis very much doubts that Putin is “guilty” in the actions of Islamic terrorists fighting in Iraq. Does anyone really believe, asks the journalist, that the militants from ISIL "receive instructions from Moscow"? According to Adomanis, the words of Kasparov are “obviously unsubstantiated and untenable statement.” Instead of a serious attempt at political analysis, we see the slogan “Blame Putin!”, The observer notes.
No need to think, we add to this that Comrade Adomanis is an apologist for the Kremlin. An American magazine reviewer is inclined to accuse Putin of seizing the Crimea and instability in the Ukrainian southeast. Adomanis believes that Putin is fighting with the political opposition in Russia. Finally, Mark doesn’t like the Kremlin’s campaign to promote traditional values ’. Of course, he criticizes the lack of success of the Russian authorities in economic transformations.
At the same time, we can read the materials of a fairly objective browser in a popular magazine. His impartiality stands out in particular against those who write about the remnants of endangered Russians who will soon be finally driven to the grave by the KGB Tyrant Putin.
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