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Today I cried a few times while running in the forest while listening to the first episodes of the podcast series "Next year in Moscow" by Arkady Ostrovsky of The Economist. It is about the experience of Russian emigrees and so far I must say it is really good. Indeed, this is only about liberal, middle-class Russians. But I don't see that bias as a problem, or rather the production makes it explicitly problematic, connecting political naivety with its economic condition. The interviews look back at the carefree middle-class optimism of the early Putin years – and this is what makes certain parallels to the "Western" trajectory even more uncanny.

https://www.economist.com/moscowpod