Life in Russia: 1.5 Years Later

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  • Опубліковано 26 тра 2023
  • Hey guys, it's almost summer of 2023 and it's been almost 1.5 years since life in Russia changed dramatically. But today I would like to talk not about the life and prosperity (or decline) of the country, but about the lives of ordinary people in it. There are two points of view. According to the first, people in Russia have lost access to hundreds of services and services, people are leaving the country by the millions, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to survive. According to the other, the country has only benefited from the special military operation that was launched, the people have rallied, import substitution is in full swing, and the next few years will be OUR years. Well, let me, as a really average resident of Russia, try to describe what has really changed in our lives during this time.
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    Hey there. Somehow you found my video and decided to watch it. So let me introduce myself. I'm Sergei and I'm from Russia. My channel is about my native country. I want to tell English-speaking viewers about the real Russia, about its past and present. Unfortunately, you can find a lot of propaganda about Russia on the Internet, both from the Russian media and from the Western ones. I want to tell you about Russia, as it really is, the country in which I was born, grew up, and lived all my life.
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  • @HEKVT
    @HEKVT Рік тому +751

    You know you're doing something right when you're similtaneously a foreign agent but also a Kremlin bot.

    • @rustomkanishka
      @rustomkanishka Рік тому

      Sometimes it's a badge of honour, like for media. In my country the BBC is simultaneously a liberal whore and an imperialist capitalist mouthpiece.
      There are of course those people who are simultaneously hated like Caitlyn Jenner. Americans always bemoan how the nation is divided.
      Look to Caitlyn Jenner. She's a trans person who also is Republican. And from what I understand insufferable.

    • @czechpatriot2230
      @czechpatriot2230 Рік тому +26

      Tbh most of the time I see him being labbeled as a orc.

    • @Батько7
      @Батько7 Рік тому +52

      @@czechpatriot2230 Orc sounds proud

    • @Tuppoo94
      @Tuppoo94 Рік тому +15

      A wise man once said: "You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."

    • @deez8202
      @deez8202 Рік тому +2

      what?

  • @EnoughAds
    @EnoughAds Рік тому +43

    10:00 As a person from South Asia I didnt even know "Heated Steering Wheels" was even a thing

    • @RealPolitik-dy4it
      @RealPolitik-dy4it Рік тому +3

      Yeah, but at the same time, I am sure there are shops in Russia that winterize these vehicles. It isn’t really that much. You can get the steering wheel aftermarket. For the heated seats, you just put warning pads under the upholstery. Then you need to change the acid battery to a gel battery and spray anti-corrosion coating on the undercarriage.
      It really isn’t that much work.

  • @forsis80
    @forsis80 Рік тому +78

    Honesty has no nationality. Thats why i like you're take on things.

    • @Ferelmakina
      @Ferelmakina Рік тому +4

      Your*

    • @forsis80
      @forsis80 Рік тому

      @@Ferelmakina ? You take take on things? Or Yours yes my English is not to good :)

    • @forsis80
      @forsis80 Рік тому +9

      @@_DeadEnd_ Thanks, since im drunk now ill forget it. But you are all sweet, im im not from England or the US 😂😂

    • @forsis80
      @forsis80 Рік тому +5

      @@_DeadEnd_ Same to you m8

  • @RoninShinobi88
    @RoninShinobi88 Рік тому +188

    Thank you for posting these videos. It's so good to see an actual perspective from someone on the ground living in reality rather than some "Analyst" reading off statistics that may or may not be true making predictions not realizing he is no better than a fortune teller playing with Cards and Leaves.

    • @SkyGlitchGalaxy
      @SkyGlitchGalaxy Рік тому

      Yes, experts are idiots & u are a genius.

    • @cv990a4
      @cv990a4 11 місяців тому

      People expect too much and too little from sanctions. Sanctions have little instant impact - but over the longer term, they will be devastating.
      It's a bit like Brexit. When Brexit was voted, it was clear that it was not going to be good for the UK, but nothing bad happened immediately.
      But now, it's unambiguous that Brexit has been a disaster for the UK. A slow but steady accretion of gradual and then sudden impacts have left essentially everyone worse and with the passage of time we can see that investment in the UK, compared to the rest of the EU, slowed almost immediately after the Brexit vote, and the accumulated effect of that over time has been massive. The UK's output is materially lower than it was, the impact of inflation has been far worse in the UK than every other advanced economy, etc.
      Same with sanctions on Russia. The immediate impact was oversold - the sky did not fall, people got used to substitute Russian brands, etc. With every passing day, the accumulated impact becomes greater and greater. No one thing creates an immediate step change, instead, it is a slow erosion of many things adding up over time. For instance (and certainly not comprehensive):
      * The departure of over a million of Russia's best and brightest citizens abroad. This is a massive diaspora of motivated, intelligent and highly qualified people who will ultimately benefit economies all over the world rather than that of Russia. Think of the impact of just one Russian (actually Ukrainian) who left Russia after the revolution in 1917 - Igor Sikorsky (of helicopter fame).
      * Far higher spending on military that was completely unanticipated and can only increase the longer the war goes on as Russia runs down stocks of Soviet equipment and must buy new equipment from wherever it can. In this respect, the costs of Russia's war are understated, if one considers replacement costs for all the Soviet equipment that has been used up. That's a one-time benefit.
      * Destruction of Russia's export markets for weapons. The Russian military's performance has been awful, Russia has diverted promised deliveries of equipment to its own troops instead, and once this is all over (if it ever is), Russia will need to rebuild its own forces, limiting its ability to export. Meanwhile new suppliers such as S. Korea are benefitting.
      * Loss of Russian standing in the world. Its military has been exposed as far less than it was portrayed, it's become isolated, it's acted illegally, it has lost access to western technology. This is a banana republic with nukes, not the second-leading military power that was portrayed.
      * Loss of internal transport networks. Russia stole all the western aircraft that it leased, but cannot properly maintain them over time and has dramatically reduced access to parts. It also cannot hope to replace them with domestically produced aircraft, as it lacks key technologies such as high reliability, high endurance commercial jet engines. If you want to understand the future of Russian air travel, look at that of Iran: gulfif.org/irans-aviation-industry-is-in-dire-straits This is a huge problem for the biggest country in geographic terms.
      * The loss of energy receipts, including some that cannot be replaced for the foreseeable future (the lost gas sales to Europe - pipelines do not exist that can deliver most of that to anywhere else, and additional LNG terminals will be hard to build without western technology).
      * Hundreds of thousands (so far) dead and injured Russian men. Even among those who are lucky enough to return from the battlefields without physical injury there will be many suffering from PTSD the rest of their lives. This is a catastrophe for hundreds of thousand Russian families.

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 10 місяців тому +1

      I was wondering if they have a Russian version of Uber/Lyft type service over there?
      Is it popular and profitable for the drivers?

    • @RT-qd8yl
      @RT-qd8yl 9 місяців тому +1

      @@BillAnt Yes, but I've got no clue on name or anything else. For the second part, I'd guess no. But it's not really very profitable in the west either.

  • @aleksapetrovic6519
    @aleksapetrovic6519 Рік тому +162

    This reminds me of what my parents said how was Yugoslavia was back in late 80s and early 90s. In summery everything was find on day to day basis. People still lived good lives and did what they did what they always did. However there was something terribly wrong going on and no one knew exactly what. Yes you could go to Dubrovnik and have nice chat with Croats, but there was a tension in the air you could cut it with a knife. According to them life was good, but everyone knew something bad will happen like a calm before the storm. The main difference as far as I see is we were descending back then into chaos (chaos in which I was born and grew up) as people were expressing their radical opinions louder and louder, while in Russia it seems goverment grip is tighter and people don't want to express their opinion on any matter.

    • @krotemitschield
      @krotemitschield Рік тому +33

      This is when the Americans came to you and brought shells with depleted uranium?

    • @aleksapetrovic6519
      @aleksapetrovic6519 Рік тому +2

      @@krotemitschield No, that was the 99. I am taking about 90-91. Now we know some things like Sloba was Americam man, Franjo had connection with Ustase and Slovenians were liberal faggots (ok the last one wasn't anything new). Back then there was a meeting in Karadjordjeva where Sloba and Tudjman were sopouse to see what they will do about crisis that we are heading. Now we know they made an agreement how they will fight this war and how they will plunder the state. The last hope was JNA, but it turned out politics pritty much paralized it so we had no military dictatorship to guard the legacy of Commrade Tito like Turkish army guarded the legacy of Ataturk back in 50s and 70s. When fighting broke out in Slovenia, JNA had explicit order not to return fire, so they were there getting shot at by local hunting community. Now we know (quiet recently) that NATO troops were waiting in Austria and Italy to invade us should the conflict escalate so they can act as saviors and that there were our special forces ready to kill and make arrest all those liberal traitors who said they don't want Communism and broke KPJ. All those informations were unknown at the time and there was massive confussion for ordinary people leading up to this. No one knew we were slowly but surely lead to the slaughter. Even in the 99s that was less of a mystery, but still very tense, we only recently learnt that Russians actually came to help us in Pristina and that we gave NATO airforce actually a headache.

    • @reyoo24
      @reyoo24 Рік тому

      @@krotemitschield yes Americans are sharing the number one spot of international war criminals with Russia

    • @андрей_свиридов
      @андрей_свиридов Рік тому

      ​​@@RobespierreThePoofeah, you know, Russia is some kind of example of perfectly non-racist country.
      1. We (Russia) are veeeery multinational country.
      2. There are many immigrants from Middle East, The Caucasis, South Asia, many of which work in shops, on the streets, as builders etc. but I, as a surgeon myself have seen A LOT of good doctors of these nationalities.
      3. Yes, there are tension in the air, but not between nationalities, but between Russia supporters and them damn soy-boy joykilling liberals that either crossed the border with Kazakhstan or Georgia, running from mobilization, or remained in Russia, but became shtty traitor rats. But you know, from my personal experience, I think that sth like 98% of Russians support their government. So I think that this 2% traitor tension isn't enough to tore us apart.

    • @danielelombardo8196
      @danielelombardo8196 Рік тому

      good, because that means at least Russia won't go the way of Yugoslavia, with civil war and ethnic cleansings (and the oh so dear NATO intervention)

  • @theriddler6994
    @theriddler6994 9 місяців тому +3

    Protect this mans channel at all cost! One of the best works ive seen in long time

  • @WagesOfDestruction
    @WagesOfDestruction Рік тому +2

    Thank you for the update

  • @komputerowiec6038
    @komputerowiec6038 Рік тому +2

    Super Setarko !!

  • @xyz-hx5dh
    @xyz-hx5dh Рік тому +15

    Thank you setarko for posting this video. Your humor and honesty is amazing.

  • @daemon.running
    @daemon.running Рік тому +23

    If the first frame of the video isnt a bear, with a "Greetings comrades!" Its not really Setarko.

  • @tapeesa2866
    @tapeesa2866 Рік тому +79

    Greetings from Chukotka! The sun is rising and you release another great video!
    I work for ROSATOM and sanctions have done little to us, even American NPPs still import our uranium fuel.
    Currently I returned home from doing work on the NPP being built in Egypt.

    • @IGLArocknroll
      @IGLArocknroll Рік тому

      I thought that the NPP project will be put on hold because Egypt has sold military equipment to Ukraine.

    • @s.novozhilov1856
      @s.novozhilov1856 Рік тому +11

      @@IGLArocknroll maybe because its too risky to leave half-built atomic station for unknown term.

    • @Silver_Prussian
      @Silver_Prussian Рік тому +12

      Rosatom is the corporate giant you would see in some cyberpunk dystopia but without the bad stuff. The company is not just competitive but a big boy on the global stage.

    • @prfwrx2497
      @prfwrx2497 Рік тому +4

      To be fair, you are RosAtom. Other industries are... Less fortunate.

    • @iplaygames8090
      @iplaygames8090 Рік тому

      i read about that one. How was the weather there?

  • @behroozkhaleghirad
    @behroozkhaleghirad Рік тому +109

    I'm from Iran, living in Iran, 28 years old male. If you know what's going on here and about our history, then you know. I try to be as objective and as fair as possible in my judgment of the events. The result is that the government doesn't like me as a potential enemy and the people who oppose the rulers hate me as a government agent!!! Me and you, likes of us, are a rare breed. EXTREMELY RARE BREED. We always see the things the way they are and we are always hated by all because we aren't delusional. And we always lose, because we aren't the majority. I hope we grow mentally stronger to keep our sanity and dignity because population vise we are always going to be the oppressed minority.

    • @rustomkanishka
      @rustomkanishka Рік тому +6

      Salam. It's been that way for a while. My father left Iran in 1980 due to similar reasons. Everyone was either thinking you're an agent of the CIA, or a secret communist, or quietly a snitch for the Mullahs.
      My family is from Kazerun, Fars. I'm from Mumbai.
      I've given up trying to plan holidays because every time I do, something weird happens in the news.

    • @justacrewmate3876
      @justacrewmate3876 Рік тому +3

      I am 22 German and from Germany.
      My goverment is also hating me.

    • @snowsnow4231
      @snowsnow4231 Рік тому +17

      Or maybe you are just a victim of pro western media that are trying to make you feel depressed. Maybe put away a phone for a week or two and try to actually live your life. I am telling it to you as someone who was consuming oppositional Russian media, where everything was portrayed grim and dark. But I broke the habit of being on the web all the time, got myself a new bicycle and started touching grass a little bit more. Suddenly, work became less depressing and I realised that I have been under the influence of those media. For example one early 2000s blogger, Kamikaze D was one of my favourite, dude sat in front of a camera and discusses for 15 minutes straight how someone got hit by a car or fell on the icy sidewalk, concluding that that was the result of Putin`s evil rule, which now sounds hilarious to me. People in France get hit by a car, yet no one runs over there and tells French that it is the result of Macrons rule and they need to start a blood bath in the streets.
      And logically, young people who use more media, are the most oppositional ones. People who live in their moms house, do not work, do not pay bills or rent, people who literally have all of their needs taken care of by their parents are all of a sudden the most oppressed ones. I am now an adult with all the burdens of work-life balance, yet I see life more positively than when I was 16 and played video games whole day long.
      And at the age of 28, you should already have enough wisdom to understand that the good kind Americans are asking you to overthrow your government and jump with a sauce side west under the tank not because they care about you or want to come and pay for your careless life out of their pocket. If you really believe that some CIA or Pentagon sit and dream about making your life better by spending their money to build some sort of a haven on earth for you, look at "successful" South Korea, that has the one of the highest sauce side rates in the world, has an overworked population with lowest birth rates, who sweat their balls off their whole life under extreme competition and couldn`t even afford to live with a girl or buy their own place. It is one big shiny labour camp with glitter and kpop bands, that looks shiny from the outside, but on the inside it is such a rat race that you would have just hopped out of the window there after you fail some exam that defines your whole life path - watch Squid Games, a TV series about South Korea, note that. A country where people sell kidneys to pay off debts.

    • @justacrewmate3876
      @justacrewmate3876 Рік тому

      @@snowsnow4231 I tell you.
      I also shot down social media for a time and i saw how Germany is treating us young males.
      I feel like you Russians cant feel how american influence is destroying your own country. Only understand maybe but i wish you will never feel it.

    • @malithaw
      @malithaw Рік тому +1

      ​@@justacrewmate3876 hm i wonder why that is? Neo nazi?

  • @RealPolitik-dy4it
    @RealPolitik-dy4it Рік тому +23

    Yeah. Being originally from Russia myself, and having friends and family over there, I am constantly annoyed by this bipolar attitude towards the situation there. People either think that it has turned into a Cuba, or they think that it is the best place in earth. But in reality, it is the same for the most part.
    As far as the effects of the sanctions: Russia navigated the sudden onslaught pretty well. Now we need to see how it does in the long-term. I’m talking 5-10 years. Because let’s not kid ourselves, they will never be rolled back no matter what. Will they be able to replace western products and services with domestic (and/or Chinese/Indian) products and services, or not? In 5 years, will overall quality of life be better in Russia than it was in 2019 (I am using this as a metric because it was the last “normal” year - you all know why)? What about in 10 years?
    The answer is, I don’t know, nor does anyone else. Because this relies on a multitude of factors. How will this war end? How much longer will it last? What will be the cost for Russia at the end of the day? What will be the new terms at the end of all of this? What will be going on in China in 5 years? Taiwan? What about Iran and India? Will there be another sickness (can’t discount that)? How will the oil markets look?
    As a matter of fact, forget Russia. The whole world is at a crossroads. 2+ years of lockdowns, then 1.5 years of the world essentially splitting in two. This is having life-changing effects on every single country. So much is going on right now that anything can happen anywhere. We in the US are no exception. The situation is so unpredictable that it can literally go either of a thousand ways over here.

    • @vladm5920
      @vladm5920 Рік тому +4

      I’m from Russia and I agree with everything stated 💯

    • @cristitanase6130
      @cristitanase6130 Рік тому

      They will roll back, don't worry.
      One thing you can be totally sure of. The Western greed.
      The war won't be over and corporations will return to Russia as both export and import partners.

    • @anonymous-hz2un
      @anonymous-hz2un 11 місяців тому +4

      You still don't get it buddy?? Russia's future is that of a chinese protectorate 😉

    • @cristitanase6130
      @cristitanase6130 11 місяців тому

      @@anonymous-hz2un
      What part of "Stop watching CNN" do you don't get already?
      Let me explain, 17.500 nuclear warheads say Russia won't be anyone's protectorate. Ever.
      Take your time, understand it, everything the bs media tells you, is a lie. Just like it was about Iraq, Syria, Libya, Aphganistan and so on.
      A lie.

    • @carter9386
      @carter9386 10 місяців тому

      @@anonymous-hz2unyou’re kind of a douchebag

  • @DodoLP
    @DodoLP Рік тому +23

    i love how when you said "yes life is a little worse but bearable" and then showed clip of movie where someone said similar thing and then 3minutes later he found out that its not as good as it seemed haha

    • @Olga-de3ru
      @Olga-de3ru 6 місяців тому +1

      Тем не менее жизнь в целом именно улучшается. Возможно, это больше касается провинции (я живу в Воронеже), а в Москве вечно были больше склонны к нытью. К тому же у нас много украинских беженцев, и они своим восхищением перед Россией добавляют бодрости (хотя жаль, что они очень резко настроены против Украины; у мужа есть украинские корни, и он знает украинский, и надеялся поговорить, "порозмовляти украïнською", но почти ни с кем не удалось - люди оттуда говорят, что их "тошнит от мовы", и они хотят побыстрее забыть весь тот кошмар.
      Конечно, недавняя бомбежка Белгорода породило чувство горечи и разожгла требования к Путину быть жёстче и бить киевских главарей, а не просто военные объекты. Тревожность тоже есть, и в связи угрозами украинских неонацистов атаковать Воронеж, и угрозой украинского терроризма, но определенный террористический фон оттуда имеется уже очень долго, так что всплеска, пожалуй, нет.

    • @DodoLP
      @DodoLP 6 місяців тому

      @@Olga-de3ru im not reading that

    • @jonseilim4321
      @jonseilim4321 2 місяці тому

      ​@@Olga-de3ruthank you for commenting, ignore the retard

  • @haught7576
    @haught7576 Рік тому

    Thanks for posting, I always appreciate your perspective

  • @Redentor92
    @Redentor92 Рік тому

    Nice video, as always let's (naively) hope everything will improve this hot summer.

  • @erlinggaratun6726
    @erlinggaratun6726 Рік тому +3

    Your videos are interesting and unique. Cool shit. Keep em coming ;)

  • @greengeck0
    @greengeck0 Рік тому +7

    Thank you for this video, the positive and negative comparison is really important and the way you showed it really paints a full picture where everything is the same unless you open your eyes and realize is it actually normal. I wish you all the best and commend you for covering this while staying in country and trying to be understanding and critical.
    It really is a shame that after 30 years which began with positive changes culturally and relationship vise ended up with the divide deepening and I really do not see any obvious way how this will be addressed by either side.

    • @JamesSmith-ix5jd
      @JamesSmith-ix5jd Рік тому +1

      the honeymoon was already over by 2008. the main reasons - expansion of NATO, and bombing of Serbia, after that even the most liberal minded politician in Russia knew - we are next, and we will not allow this to happen, maybe Putin was chosen for that same reason.

    • @deniseproxima2601
      @deniseproxima2601 Рік тому

      You only make the life for woman harder.

    • @nahidaxnilou
      @nahidaxnilou 5 місяців тому

      It’s fine here don’t think about it, think about your own life

  • @Milan23_
    @Milan23_ Рік тому

    Thank you for honest video!

  • @IGLArocknroll
    @IGLArocknroll Рік тому +9

    Besides Shaman, I heard that Andrei Nezvanny and his hit, "333" has gained a lot of popularity in certain circles.

    • @Setarko
      @Setarko  Рік тому +13

      There are smaller "militarised artists" like this guy or Akim Apachev but they are nowhere near the national level of popularity. Shaman is unique in this regard.

    • @krotemitschield
      @krotemitschield Рік тому +1

      Perhaps it depends on the region, but I learned about the wild popularity of the Shaman from some UA-cam channel.

  • @MBTIinRealLife
    @MBTIinRealLife Рік тому +17

    The amount of research you've put into making this video is impressive. Well done.

    • @pushkins26
      @pushkins26 11 місяців тому +2

      literally 'imho' tier research

  • @bettinadorling1942
    @bettinadorling1942 11 місяців тому +2

    Your accounts are always interesting. I wondered how you would deal with the. ‘ situation’. The negatives that you talk about are real and have major implications for the future. I think you have a good grasp of what is actually going on. There is a really good reason to be anxious . The rest of the world is anxious too. This is misery.

    • @pippadawg7037
      @pippadawg7037 3 місяці тому

      Here's an inside secret: your own governments (east or west) are purposely increasing their respective populations anxiety levels. It makes you easier to control and direct. When you are frightened and anxious you are like a herd animal that just goes with whatever direction the herd pushes you. But how can they do this, if stuff just happens and they have to react to it like everyone else? "Stuff" is manufactured, faked, lied about, or hidden, as they control the media and all major institutions. You generally believe what you are told. You shouldn't.

  • @evilkhamzat
    @evilkhamzat Рік тому +10

    Man you’re getting slaughtered in the comments by both sides 😂.
    Great video no sugar coating anything

  • @wesseallik9991
    @wesseallik9991 Рік тому +15

    My family members who live in Russia, talk same way about situation. Only difference is, in smaller places the situation has gone worse in real terms.

    • @angeltensey
      @angeltensey Рік тому +5

      depends on place

    • @R3RS2024
      @R3RS2024 Рік тому +2

      @@angeltensey i mean its same every where on the planet.

    • @angeltensey
      @angeltensey Рік тому +2

      @@R3RS2024 i mean in russia i've seen real rural shitholes where only god knows why anyone lives. and tiny towns in the middle of nowhere with fresh asphalt, trimmed trees, nice houses etc.

    • @pavelp281
      @pavelp281 11 місяців тому +1

      @@angeltensey In general, in Russia live quality is better in bigger cities, the best quality of life is in Moscow, of course.

    • @angeltensey
      @angeltensey 11 місяців тому +2

      @@pavelp281 its fair for any big country. logistics and networking capacity isnt infinite. thats why, say, korea is more or less consistent throughout the territory, but russia and usa arent. cities has all the things, towns and villages are limited here and there.

  • @satyakisil9711
    @satyakisil9711 Рік тому +5

    So you're telling me you don't have to watch ads in UA-cam in Russia? That's a W.

    • @CruelDwarf
      @CruelDwarf Рік тому +2

      Yep. No ads on UA-cam or on Twitch at all. I think commercial VPN providers should now include Russian adress options more often.

    • @ookami_otaku1206
      @ookami_otaku1206 Рік тому

      ​@Bertie Wooster they can't can't have people watching the media nato and us banned they might start to think for themselves

    • @JamesSmith-ix5jd
      @JamesSmith-ix5jd Рік тому

      ​@@CruelDwarf The main goal of a VPN is to prevent censorship. By using Russian IP you will be more censored on the web, not less.

    • @CruelDwarf
      @CruelDwarf Рік тому

      @@JamesSmith-ix5jd not really. Because you can switch VPN on and off on demand, so you can avoid both Western and Russian censorship that way.

    • @JamesSmith-ix5jd
      @JamesSmith-ix5jd Рік тому

      @@CruelDwarf It's too cumbersome. Also the West only blocks RT, Sputnik and maybe few others, but Russia blocks much more, thousands of sites.

  • @KiwiTomCrawford
    @KiwiTomCrawford Рік тому +13

    Here in New Zealans we aren't under any sanctions and we don't and have not had any model of the google pixel for sale anywhere, at best you can purchase from doubious international resellers with no protection in the event the device breaks. I guess google just hates us.

    • @happyelephant5384
      @happyelephant5384 Рік тому +6

      You are just not on the map, I guess :)

    • @cristitanase6130
      @cristitanase6130 Рік тому

      Same here in EU.
      Somehow Russians think we can all afford the latest brand models.
      We live on debt for hell sake.

    • @Karton142
      @Karton142 10 місяців тому +2

      @@cristitanase6130 Maybe it's because long tradition of thinking that Europe is a paradise since 19th century

    • @cristitanase6130
      @cristitanase6130 10 місяців тому

      @@Karton142 Trust me, I understand it, but they have to slowly understand that here in EU things are quite... shitty. And I'm censoring myself.
      On the surface may look nice and all that, but with 30-70% youth unemployment, rising personal and family debt, massive decline in life standards and increase in living costs, things are not bright right now, and the trend is not good either.

  • @Queenofanime26
    @Queenofanime26 Рік тому +3

    Thank you for the video. I hope you are doing well and that things change.

  • @iMost067
    @iMost067 Рік тому +14

    i would agree with anything but artists.
    Its proven many times that most pop artists talent is much more common that they try to portray, and eventualy they all would be replaced by new ones

  • @alekseysharin
    @alekseysharin Рік тому +30

    "Coca cola is the same cola, just a little worse". Very true XD

    • @vladm5920
      @vladm5920 Рік тому +1

      Seriously? I actually like it more, it’s smoother. My gf likes it better as well 🤔

    • @cristitanase6130
      @cristitanase6130 Рік тому +2

      Poison with sugar and colorants.

  • @tdt0108
    @tdt0108 Рік тому +22

    Just got back from Moscow and Pieter today. Found the Moscovites in particular to be in good spirits. City still functioning very well. Many western goods unavailable or being replaced by locally produced ones...but that makes the visit even better :)

    • @user-qy4ov8dp5y
      @user-qy4ov8dp5y 10 місяців тому

      Пир по време на чума.

    • @rgbforever4561
      @rgbforever4561 9 місяців тому

      How the fuck did you think it would be a good idea to travel to Moscow and supporting the russian war effort with it???

  • @mani-nb9ik
    @mani-nb9ik Рік тому +38

    Don't worry about perception brother, most of the west wont judge like that. We still love the russian culture, no matter who rules the country. Please relax brother

    • @michaldvorak2501
      @michaldvorak2501 Рік тому

      Pls don’t speak for us 😅 I absolutely hate their guts personally

    • @PskovCybercat
      @PskovCybercat Рік тому +2

      It melts my heart. THNX

    • @karelstanzel9510
      @karelstanzel9510 Рік тому

      How can we love Russian culture when Russian culture says that we worship satan and that we deserve to be nuked? How can we idolize a culture that says that all Slavs should be ruled and enslaved by the Russians? And the reason there is a war in Ukraine is the Russian culture.

    • @johnrosswilhite9532
      @johnrosswilhite9532 Рік тому

      Most of the west absolutely will judge like that lol, I’ve heard nothing but hate for and dehumanization of Russians

    • @RainerMichelle
      @RainerMichelle Рік тому +1

      @@johnrosswilhite9532 yes, for some funny reason the same happened to the Germans after the defeat in 1945🤡

  • @rabbiezekielgoldberg2497
    @rabbiezekielgoldberg2497 10 місяців тому +4

    So fundamentally, it's like anywhere else in the world.

  • @timog7358
    @timog7358 Рік тому +1

    great to hear some real life experiences

  • @snowdonmark
    @snowdonmark Рік тому

    Well done. Thank you for the insight.

  • @cd5433
    @cd5433 Рік тому +17

    What?! Your salary got adjusted for inflation twice in a year ?? I’ve never had that happen to me

    • @mapoch9000
      @mapoch9000 Рік тому

      another dark legacy of the bloody communists

    • @jacksonw453
      @jacksonw453 Рік тому +5

      Meanwhile my wage is the same as it was in 2018, God I hate construction sometimes

    • @jasontandria2166
      @jasontandria2166 Рік тому

      here in taiwan from 2018-2022 my salary got raised twice as food prices increased a bit

    • @ShinigamiInuyasha777
      @ShinigamiInuyasha777 Рік тому +1

      As an argentinan. This is everyday life. Always inflation. If the goverment is leftist union negotiate to raise salaries. If goverment conservative worse inflation and try to put union leaders in jail😢

    • @sodinc
      @sodinc 9 місяців тому +1

      it is an automatic process for state employees in Russia, basically. And almost all research institutions in Russia are state organisations, some a federal, other ones are regional

  • @JM-qb2kd
    @JM-qb2kd Рік тому +50

    I hope desperately that many ppl in the west will see this video, and listen with a sober balanced mind. Because much of this stuff is easily could apply to life in Western Europe or North America. I mean truthfully here in the United States, we’ve had record high inflation these past few years. We also ran into food and medicine shortages in many areas and regions of the states. It’s obvious that Russia isn’t exactly doing the best it ever has, but neither our western nations. We’ve had crackdowns on protests, clamping down on “fake news/disinformation”, we’ve had crackdowns on protests, and a dramatic increase in political violence. So.. yea I wouldn’t expect Russia may not be doing the best, but it’s far from collapse. The situation in many western countries, and certainly (from what I’ve seen) the United States is also going through many of the same or at least similar things.
    Thank you for this video, it was good. In my opinion at least, I felt like it was fair and balanced. It didn’t come off as blatant propaganda in either direction, or as of pushing an agenda. I feel like many people need to see this and understand we have so much more in common with one another. So, thank you again.

    • @veduci22
      @veduci22 Рік тому

      As someone living in Central Europe the overall situation in my country seems to be different from Russia or US. The inflation is roughly the half of Russian (official numbers) and while there are some fears of economic recession most people are cautiously optimistic. There seem to be increased hybrid war efforts from Russia/China/Iran & the rest of the gang to influence public opinions and spread Kremlin&Peking propaganda and conspiracies but most of the people except for the far-right crowd are completely ignoring this. Vast majority of people welcomed Ukrainian refugees and are willing to accept Ukraine into the EU. There is huge push to invest more into energy sector and to rethink investing strategies concerning countries with autocratic regimes but in the end companies want to make business as usual and everyone wants to Putin's regime to collapse so economic ties with Russia would return to pre-war period.

    • @RainerMichelle
      @RainerMichelle Рік тому +6

      yes, our friend makes good videos, but you forget that he lives in a privileged position, he has a government job, most likely in a scientific field, this means he is protected, he will always get paid and he will not be mobilized, what about the factory workers in the Ural mountains who have not seen their salaries for several months? or villages in the countryside who saw their whole male population put in busses and transported to the front? and yes, for wealthy people medical care is still available, but for many ordinary people in Russia it is not, and the list goes on....

    • @LucasFernandez-fk8se
      @LucasFernandez-fk8se Рік тому +2

      I agree Bidens america has ruined the standard of living we enjoyed under trump. Under trump someone making 60k a year could own a nice 300k home and have 2 cars and afford to raise a family. Under Biden 60k is upper poverty, 300k houses are the 150k houses of 2019 and with high interest they’re twice the monthly. And rent for a 1 bedroom is 1600 a month

    • @snowsnow4231
      @snowsnow4231 Рік тому +10

      @@RainerMichelle science jobs suck in Russia, they get paid peanuts, I have friends who work in an Institute of Nuclear Physics and my other friend who started a small welding company at 25 makes more money and looks like a baron compared to the science dude who still lives with his parents.
      Not really much mountains in Urals, more like hills, also who`s been waiting for salaries for months, can you name a company? Factory workers have more chances to get mobilisation protection, because they produce strategically important machinery.
      Again, your stories about busses loaded with villagers are some comic anecdote, what village is that? Villagers volunteer to the front line, because if they come home, with that amount of money they could retire at the age of 30, a light scratch pays for a new apartment in the city centre, a minimum wage there buys a small house after 3 months.
      Medical care is provided by the universal national healthcare, again you have very little knowledge of what Russia is, you seem, to imagine something different. At least google how those "Ural mountains" look like, lol.

    • @RealPolitik-dy4it
      @RealPolitik-dy4it Рік тому +1

      ⁠@@RainerMichelle But can’t you also apply the same logic to people in the US. On one hand, you have people who work for government and large corporations, some of whom are pulling high 6-figure salaries. On the other hand, you have rural West Virginia, the inner-city, and pretty much all of Ohio.
      Sure, nobody is getting mobilized here. But the overall situation has had more of an effect on some, than it had on others.

  • @user-lz1yb6qk3f
    @user-lz1yb6qk3f Рік тому +2

    "Chaos is a ladder", just without handrails

  • @josedorsaith5261
    @josedorsaith5261 9 місяців тому

    Asides from the brand boycotts, the end segment sounds extremely familiar to the situation here in the UK

  • @user-rq6xc6sc7g
    @user-rq6xc6sc7g Рік тому +9

    пов: ты русский и смотришь видео про свою страну на английском

    • @user-jl7xw2pf3h
      @user-jl7xw2pf3h Рік тому

      Я люблю смотреть что о нас думают

    • @rgbforever4561
      @rgbforever4561 9 місяців тому

      ​@@user-jl7xw2pf3hI think of you as
      Not political in the worst possible time to be not political

  • @kristiant96
    @kristiant96 Рік тому +2

    "The flags might be different, but the methods are the same." Viktor Reznov.

  • @juanDE1703
    @juanDE1703 Рік тому +2

    That shaman intro 10/10

    • @ZapperRS
      @ZapperRS 11 місяців тому

      Shaman has some nice songs, but he's a big sellout

  • @sdevidutta
    @sdevidutta Рік тому

    Let's discuss when will setarko change his channel display picture

  • @alxsblv6164
    @alxsblv6164 Рік тому +25

    Из всех причин для тревожности ты почему-то упустил самую простую и очевидную - идёт война и не самым гладким образом. Люди следят за этим и переживают.

    • @nikital7541
      @nikital7541 Рік тому +1

      Нормально, парень просто пытается не оступиться чтобы никто не настучал.

    • @johnjoons1545
      @johnjoons1545 Рік тому +9

      да, не из-за того что инсту заблокировали сокрушаться же.
      вообщем странные негативные причины у пацана, такое только москвич или кто-то из Питера мог бы привести в пример.

    • @dwishs
      @dwishs Рік тому +8

      Я думаю это само собой разумеющееся

    • @rgbforever4561
      @rgbforever4561 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@dwishsmy man is dodging bullets

    • @tarkh
      @tarkh 7 місяців тому +3

      Война с НАТО не может идти самым гладким образом в принципе. Конечно же народ переживает за всю эту ситуацию. Но я не согласен, что нет единения народа - оно есть и очень сильное, просто, как обычно это бывает, враги и предатели кричат громче всех. Но чего будет стоить их крик, когда надо будет всем народом хорошенько навалиться на вёсла и плыть по своему форватеру, а не дрейфовать в наркотическом сне. Плыть под ветром настоящей созидательной свободы, а не деструктивной иллюзорности, что была в конце 80-х, в 90-х и в начале 2000-х.

  • @johnrobdoyle
    @johnrobdoyle Рік тому +9

    India and china are paying 30% below the market value for Russian Oil, the output of which has fallen, & Gas revenues from the EU have literally vanished, The federal budget expenditures published by Moscow for the first few months of 2023 suggest things are going very badly.The budget deficit in January exceeded 60 percent of the predicted indicator for the whole of 2023. There is likely to be little option for Moscow than to spend foreign exchange reserves and the assets of the National Welfare Fund. All of this suggests that while the Russian economy managed to navigate the first year of the SMO, the coming months and years could prove substantially more challenging for the average Russian.

    • @AEH-df7ho
      @AEH-df7ho Рік тому +2

      Well, as we say here - Moscow isn't Russia

    • @cristitanase6130
      @cristitanase6130 Рік тому +1

      And you consumer BBC because all those lies were BBC talking points from months ago.
      Russia pays all its debt in the first semester, that is why always that semester has negative growth.
      Russia exports energy at far higher prices than before the war. The total revenues increases while they cut down production two times since then.
      All the rest is bullcrap.

  • @cheekierthenbreeki
    @cheekierthenbreeki Рік тому +32

    Its such a great thing that we still have non biased channels on this platform. Keep it up mate!

  • @Aureus_
    @Aureus_ Рік тому +1

    Interesting

  • @michaelcutler5538
    @michaelcutler5538 8 місяців тому

    I'm a microbiology student in grad school right now, I'd live to hear about your work as a scientist sometime

  • @uydagcusdgfughfgsfggsifg753
    @uydagcusdgfughfgsfggsifg753 Рік тому +3

    Sounds like everyone is just waiting for the other shoe to drop

  • @stc3145
    @stc3145 Рік тому +5

    You reap what you sow

  • @dimbulb6443
    @dimbulb6443 Рік тому

    You have to remember that the vast increase in military spending curbs the downturn in the GDP.

  • @notak4046
    @notak4046 Рік тому +1

    Lately the changes are getting faster and faster...

  • @OctavChelaru
    @OctavChelaru Рік тому +18

    Thank you for sharing your first hand experience. Hope Russia will one day be free for the sake of it's citizens and the world at large.

    • @eucaliptusx
      @eucaliptusx Рік тому +14

      Hello! Thank you for your sencere wishes for the best!
      However, I want to remind, that as the concept of “freedom” really differs between here and abroad, the “freedom”, you are thinking about, may not be the kind of “the sake of Russian citizens and the world”

    • @JamesSmith-ix5jd
      @JamesSmith-ix5jd Рік тому +12

      Free of what

    • @lemonov3031
      @lemonov3031 Рік тому +19

      We are already free. Too free in some areas, even.
      And we definitely don't need to be freed by some foreign power.

    • @ChechenSoviet
      @ChechenSoviet Рік тому +5

      ​@@lemonov3031I also think so. People like us need to unite. To protect Russia from Western Influence.

    • @thewitcher69
      @thewitcher69 Рік тому

      @@ChechenSoviet before USSR collapsed, there was communism vs capitalism (free) world, now Russia is capitalist, BUT not free still, lol There are very important LGPTQRWP+ rights, which Russia oposes, so still not free enough and must be destroyed

  • @Kburn1985
    @Kburn1985 Рік тому +9

    Sounds like what's going on in Australia, just worse in many areas, and better in few others.
    Prices of everything here has gone up more than Russia. Can't buy anything, even illegally, because shipping is either too expensive (I was quoted $150 for a shirt from US), or they don't ship at all. Housing and rent has gone up to abnormal levels, and homeless people are now literally couples with full time jobs, just not be able to afford rent. Everyone is depressed because everything has turned to shit, people are unhappy, always protesting, big banks are breaking record profits by increasing interest on home owners, people are angrier, and Melbourne with the longest lockdowns in the world has turned people a bit crazy.
    We still have freedom to say anything though, but everyone is protesting, left, right, center, climate, pro-business, anti-abortion, pro-abortion, anti-Russia, pro-Russia, etc. Everyone hates everyone else. Everyone feels helpless and want to be heard, but the big corporations run the show here.

  • @skeetrix5577
    @skeetrix5577 Рік тому +1

    interesting good video thanks

  • @Daswars777
    @Daswars777 11 місяців тому +1

    When vloggers make better content than the mainstream media ...

  • @chosearmandoarmando3864
    @chosearmandoarmando3864 Рік тому

    My boy song used in your video is used in DCS: Black shark as menu music :D.

  • @judlaempire
    @judlaempire 8 місяців тому +1

    To be fair, as someone who has listened to Russian music since 2015, the artists that left seem pretty indie and niche. Nobody I have listened to seems to have left, even Ukranian celebrities like Anna Asti is still performing around the country. The major stars that most young people listen to are still very active: Klava Koka, Mia Boyka, Niletto, Lusia Chebotina, Kana Val, Julia Gavil.... etc etc. The artists that left were garage band types.

    • @ZapperRS
      @ZapperRS 6 місяців тому

      Anna is Ukrainian?

    • @judlaempire
      @judlaempire 6 місяців тому

      @@ZapperRS She is, her husband is Russian but she's ukranian. She lives in Moscow tho.

  • @wat-ch
    @wat-ch Рік тому

    11:02 Unironically for me this would be a big upside.

  • @iplaygames8090
    @iplaygames8090 Рік тому +6

    gigachad 60 year old going to the front

    • @ANDREALEONE95
      @ANDREALEONE95 Рік тому +1

      Being fired for inappropriate behavior is a red flag, but fine.

    • @Dejroslaw2448
      @Dejroslaw2448 9 місяців тому

      Yes going on war that happened because of stupidity of putin and zelensky

  • @harald_smth
    @harald_smth Рік тому +7

    Live in SPB, all that author said is true, only I know about 15 out of a 100 men who left to front at some point. Luckily, all of them came back or at relatively safety. The depression, stress and atmosphere is the biggest downfall of all hell, it's like all normal, but it's like a boat in a middle of sea with repaired side, and you sit on it, thinking "Will it sink or not?". Before there was an Internet that I personally used to cope, but now it's all hate and shit. Feels bad. I finally started spending time learning IT tho, guess something good came out of it.

    • @cristitanase6130
      @cristitanase6130 Рік тому +5

      Trust me, here in EU the rates of debt are giving all of us far more worries. I mean you should see the heating bills. elders are shocked.

  • @wubsyman5796
    @wubsyman5796 Рік тому

    why did you not get recommended to me for like 2 months

  • @user-dd5vp5mv2x
    @user-dd5vp5mv2x Рік тому +1

    The part of the video when talk about loose of freedom remind me 2018. I'm French it give me yellow west flashback.
    Like damn I have to wait another 5 minutes to get my daily dose of revolution :(

  • @chrismcdowell7138
    @chrismcdowell7138 Рік тому +3

    “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”. We climb into the ole time machine, travel back thirty years, it’s East vs. West, isolationism prevails, and the whole World tumbles into crisis after crises. It’s very delusional to think we have made any rational progress whatsoever. And it’s the younger generations paying the moral, and physical debts of the older generations. History repeats itself, and repeats itself, and repeats itself, …

    • @arkadius228
      @arkadius228 Рік тому

      Wise words

    • @XOFInfantryman
      @XOFInfantryman 9 місяців тому

      Okay mr poet
      You came up with that yourself or pasted bunch of smart sounding words
      Pretentious clown

  • @Homcomru
    @Homcomru Рік тому +68

    I mean as a fellow Russian I definitely *DO* agree with that last thing about anxiety. But I think I have an explanation for it - it’s to do with realisation and adaptation to these uncertain times where for one I was personally afraid whether Ukrainians would do a terrorist attack in the Moscow metro on New Year’s eve, hence I went home a while before 12 am.
    The Kerch Bridge attack definitely made many realise that the current situation is much like the early 2000s and the drones above the Kremlin on the 3rd of May further compounded that. So all in all, I think a similar sense of “Will those people do a terrorist attack again” is much the same as in the early 2000s. Considering the murder of Vladlen Tatarsky, a PMC-loving journalist, in Saint Petersburg too. (I think the data also aligns to support this theory of mine too)

    • @barbadolid5170
      @barbadolid5170 Рік тому +14

      Wow. Thank you very much for that insight. Making the Ukraine conflict the new chechen conflict seems indeed like a very plausible strategy for the Kreml to follow

    • @GasparGa
      @GasparGa Рік тому +33

      What a weird comment. Like I understand being afraid but it's still weird to write this after Ukrainians had to hide in metro stations and bomb shelters for over a year now, thinking when (not if) will those people do a terrorist attack again

    • @barbadolid5170
      @barbadolid5170 Рік тому +34

      @@GasparGa So weird, almost as weird as being afraid of terrorist attacks after invading Irak and Afghanistan, and killing a few hundred thousands. Or being afraid of the red army in 1944 Budapest. Or being afraid of an economic recession when citizens of other countries die of hunger.

    • @prfwrx2497
      @prfwrx2497 Рік тому

      Dude, Ukraine won't bother with that kind of low value shit. If they're hitting Moscow, you won't have a MoD building.
      Kerch is a logistical target meant to siege Crimea. The drones were false flag (the area around and in Kremlin has constant broad spectrum RF jamming - radio, GPS, and telecoms don't work... Unless the jammer is turned off), and Tatarsky was a warning to Prigozhin to not talk too much smack about Shoigu.
      You see, there's the big 3 in Russia that talks shit about the MoD. Prigozhin, Strelkov, and Tatarsky. Prigozhin has an army. Strelkov is still a decent Strategist, even if he's becoming a paranoid doomer. Tatarsky, on the other hand, has no value except for being an abrasive loudmouth. They killed the useless one to scare the other two into tapping the brakes.
      I'll admit, Budanov would love to kill that genocide enthusiast, but it wasn't him. He wished it was him.

    • @prfwrx2497
      @prfwrx2497 Рік тому

      @@barbadolid5170 they'll fuckin try, you're right. They won't succeed. Chechnya has no supply routes and never had a history of unified command or statehood, hence the quick devolvement to radical terrorism and warlordship as a means to wage war. Ukraine has reliable arms supply, at least 32 years under its belt, and a strong history of statehood governance. Russia will try to make this Chechen War 2.0, it won't happen. The only way that happens is if they destroy the Ukrainian state, the new underground state subsequent to that, and then glass every neighbor with nukes to geographically isolate all of Ukraine from arms and ideas from the rest of the world.

  • @urarti7049
    @urarti7049 Рік тому +2

    Ну в целом, да.

  • @MegaMusikMan
    @MegaMusikMan Рік тому

    when it comes to the cars you could buy , i would go for a Lada,

  • @mapoch9000
    @mapoch9000 Рік тому +33

    атмосфера да, изменилась. Раньше был такой статус кво для обычных Вась и Егорок - не парься, не бузи, и всё будет на мази - у тебя точно всё будет пусть не хорошо, но нормально. Можно наслаждаться жизнью, тусить по выходным, летать на море летом...
    Но теперь начались вопросы. В первую очередь, а будет ли нормально дальше? Будь ты за или против войны, видно - правительство не вывозит. Особенно заметно по мобилизации, по гуманитаркам. Выходит, всё опять на плечах народа. Вопрос, а что делали и делают эти там? Они уверяли, что не нужно мутить воду, и у тебя всё будет хорошо, они всё обеспечат. А выходит всё не так.

    • @caim3465
      @caim3465 Рік тому

      главное не слушать что пишут человекообразные биороботы в твиттере, и всё путём будет

    • @snowsnow4231
      @snowsnow4231 Рік тому +12

      Я уверен что если бы Васи и Егорки делали все что им советует Овальный, уже бы жили как в Люксембурге, 100 проц. За 20 лет вечно недовольная оппозиция не смогла выдавить внятную экономичсекую программу кроме "мы против всего плохого и за все хорошее, мы против коррупции и за честность" - я не знаю сколько вам лет, но если вы взрослый человек проживший хоть немного взрослой жизни, то для вас такая программа звучит примерно как "доброго ранку это тех пiддiржка Сбер Банка, скажите пожалуйста свой номер ПИН и значный номер карты, вы выиграли миллион гривен".
      основная проблема запада в экономическом плане в отношении РФ - это закон о разделе продукции, по которому западные компании добывающие нефть в России были обязаны платить налоги. Как только их платить налоги обзали, началась демонизация России и президента в частности. Овальный либо отдает наши ресурсы западу, делая нас беднее, либо не отдает и его точно так же западные СМИ сделают новым доктором Зло. Это и есть ваше решение для Васянов? Отдать 265 месторождений нефти Шелл и Бритиш Петроллеум и радоваться "прозрачным полицейским участкам" в стиле поедателя галстуков?

    • @retrocomputing
      @retrocomputing Рік тому +1

      @@snowsnow4231такой угар читать подобные опусы когда на пустом месте из-за великого многоходовочника у нас сто тысяч чёрных пакетов, и у близкого этноса ещё столько же.

    • @pavelp281
      @pavelp281 11 місяців тому

      @@snowsnow4231
      Страна: Великобритания - опять с прокси напутал ? Смотри, премии лишу и в долбильню отправлю.

    • @rgbforever4561
      @rgbforever4561 9 місяців тому

      ​@@snowsnow4231so your idea is basically to go to the mobster next door and ask him to protect your small business and in return you pay for his weapons?

  • @ilyatsukanov8707
    @ilyatsukanov8707 Рік тому +11

    It actually annoys me off how little Western brands and companies have left. I wish more brands like Nike, KFC, Mercedes etc left. The biggest "negative" for me is the knowledge that people who were part of one country are killing each other with no end in sight. Over 30 years after the collapse of the USSR, we continue to pay for it.

    • @user-dz4eb5rb3g
      @user-dz4eb5rb3g Рік тому

      C 3:33

    • @benismann
      @benismann Рік тому +2

      очень хорошо, а теперь в палату

    • @boopsboops961
      @boopsboops961 Рік тому +1

      ​@@benismann а в чем он не прав?)

    • @QiuSe
      @QiuSe Рік тому

      KFC is still here, i actually have a KFC near me and it's still called KFC 😂

    • @Mortablunt
      @Mortablunt Рік тому

      They should leave Ukraine over the Donbass Genocide!

  • @mrtrollnator123
    @mrtrollnator123 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for this in-depth video about the current situation, looking at both sides of the spectrum.

    • @pertsonvelts1699
      @pertsonvelts1699 Рік тому

      How was it "in depth", lmao? It even says so at the beginning that it's not trying to be.

  • @alanwest6949
    @alanwest6949 10 місяців тому +1

    Loss of a culture’s entertainment is good for a country.
    The entertainment industry relies on and feeds the addiction of consumers. The consumers have unresolved emotional issues, who avoid facing these issues preferring instead to seek comfort in their reflections.
    For example, consumers with particular unresolved emotional issues about love, may feel a particular song resonates and speaks to them. The most popular songs appear to reflect the most common unresolved emotional issues. Violent movies will resonate with consumers who have unresolved emotional issues about violence. Violent movies also resonates unfavourably with consumers who find violence unacceptable, but who still have unresolved emotional issues about violence to heal.
    Did anyone ever write a story or song, free of all reflections of unresolved emotional issues or failures of emotional challenges? Did it resonate with anyone?
    The less a country is entertained, the more likely a people will face their unresolved emotional issues, to cry and release to heal, and in turn consume less. The reduction in unresolved emotional issues translates to a reduction of people leveraging sin for comfort, especially greed or the obese’s sins of gluttony.
    The healthier countries appear to go slower, but have the best chance at evolving emotionally toward the light with ever less unloving or untrue emotions.
    The least healthy countries appear to go fast, with greatest risk of degrading emotionally, with less loving and true emotions.
    Being closest to the edge can drive a stronger desire for truth, but more often drives stronger; fears, anger, hate, sadness, shock, which translates to emotional manipulation, sanctions, and other unloving strategies to protect pride and win a race.

    • @anon2034
      @anon2034 10 місяців тому

      Great comment!

  • @CommanderPaulB
    @CommanderPaulB Рік тому +6

    4:11 This means certain death to the gopniks!

    • @xsc1000
      @xsc1000 Рік тому

      There are plenty of chinese fakes.

    • @liammadden7572
      @liammadden7572 Рік тому +1

      What will Russians wear now

    • @Mortablunt
      @Mortablunt Рік тому

      @@liammadden7572 Big overcoats and beige slacks, like in Soviet times.

  • @egormoscal
    @egormoscal Рік тому +3

    РОССССИЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯ!!!!!!!!!!! УРАААА, УРАААААА, УРРРРРРРРРРРРРРРРРРААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААААА

  • @gushui
    @gushui Рік тому

    很有意思的俄罗斯社会观察

  • @yurikovRUKR762
    @yurikovRUKR762 Рік тому +1

    Setarko playing both sides

    • @RainerMichelle
      @RainerMichelle Рік тому

      I think he is fairly honest, but his opinion is based on his own situation , which seems to be privileged and protected, I wish he would report on the factory workers in the Urals who did not get paid since several months or on the many new cemeteries that appeared all over Russia

    • @RealPolitik-dy4it
      @RealPolitik-dy4it Рік тому

      I would argue the opposite. He is merely sharing his personal perspective on what is going on in his country.

  • @edmundasmiezelis7327
    @edmundasmiezelis7327 Рік тому +3

    Average income in russian in 2013 was 28k ruble or 700usd (1usd = 40rub) and now avarage income 48k rubel or 550usd (1usd=90rubles) and in 10 year usd lost 30 percent of it value so realisticly its 900 usd vs 550 usd , for example avarage income here in Lithuania in 2013 660 usd and in 2023 2137usd .

  • @papabear4040
    @papabear4040 11 місяців тому +8

    Life is good for the sheep, even though their shepherds are murdering, raping, and stealing from their neighbors next door.

  • @Rrgr5
    @Rrgr5 Рік тому +2

    Not considering the sanctions, it oddly sounds like the US atmosphere after 9/11, I'm not from US, but I know people who lived there during that time, mostly said similar things about that atmosphere.

    • @rgbforever4561
      @rgbforever4561 9 місяців тому

      Yea that's a huge fucking problem.
      The people need to realize that their country is the one who hijacked the planes. And not the one who's towers got destroyed

  • @MartinTetik
    @MartinTetik Рік тому +2

    In short absence of bad news is a good news

  • @Silver_Prussian
    @Silver_Prussian Рік тому +11

    There are many ukrianian immigrants who went to russia official eatimates say 2.7 million but some say it could be as high as 5 million. Most are women yes but there are men and boys. So atleast the demographic issue has been slowed down for now
    Real Reporter did a video about it few montha ago.

    • @binbows2258
      @binbows2258 Рік тому

      Somehow I doubt many Ukrainians are voluntarily moving to Russia these days.

    • @RainerMichelle
      @RainerMichelle Рік тому

      Real Reporter is a Russian propagandist, but it is true that many Ukrainians from the occupied territories got deported to Russia by force, especially tens of thousands of children got kidnapped, this is why the ICC put an arrest warrant out for Putin

    • @Mortablunt
      @Mortablunt Рік тому +5

      About 4,000,000 Ukrainians moved to Russia during the 2014-2022 phase of the Donbass Genocide to escape the Nazis. ABout 3,000,000 more have moved since the beginning of the intervention.

    • @RealPolitik-dy4it
      @RealPolitik-dy4it Рік тому +2

      On top of that, there is no shortage of Ukrainians who went to Europe, then went to Russia.

  • @rodolfo561-
    @rodolfo561- Рік тому +9

    Incredible video comrade, I would really appreciate a video about how can a foreign person can visit Russia, I’m from Mexico and as far as I know the only way to visit Russia right now is taking a flight to a country near to the border with Russia and crooks by car, I hope you can consider this proposal.

    • @dimbulb6443
      @dimbulb6443 Рік тому +5

      Why would you want to go there? Outside of a handful of nice places, Russia is a 3rd world country.

    • @rodolfo561-
      @rodolfo561- Рік тому +13

      @@dimbulb6443 what an ignorant comment, I would rather travel to any country before stepping in the US or the UK

    • @dimbulb6443
      @dimbulb6443 Рік тому

      @@rodolfo561- You’re probably a Tankie; and accessorily have never been to one of those soul sucking, job lacking, dirty Russian villages.

    • @binbows2258
      @binbows2258 Рік тому

      @@rodolfo561- The UK? Understandable. The US? The US is far better than Russia in almost every aspect.

    • @dwishs
      @dwishs Рік тому +3

      If you can get a visa, you can get into the country by plane from Turkey, for example. Or from other countries with which Russia has air links. But be prepared to spend a few hours at the border. The border guards will be very interested in you.

  • @deuslaudetur2451
    @deuslaudetur2451 Рік тому

    Do you believe those who left Russia to escape conscription will return after the war? Also assuming Russia wins, what territorial changes will there be.

    • @korneplodus4605
      @korneplodus4605 Рік тому +1

      Some of those who fled away during the time of mobilisation have already returned, some are planning to go back after the war ends, but it’s quite difficult to state exact proportions. “We will live - we will see” as we say in Russian

  • @danielpedra9196
    @danielpedra9196 Рік тому +1

    gem channel

  • @Sergio_752
    @Sergio_752 Рік тому +3

    Being 22 at current year in Russia is truly stressfull

    • @janpol466
      @janpol466 Рік тому

      Not really. But I'm 23 yo, so that do I know ?

    • @Sergio_752
      @Sergio_752 Рік тому

      @@janpol466 ну армейка вроде как отодвинулась до 30 лет, а это не очень хорошо

    • @janpol466
      @janpol466 Рік тому

      @@Sergio_752 Это проблемы нормисов, ГигаШизы чилят в диспансерах неделю, после чего стоят всю жизнь. Только бы, блять, эти ебаные нанокамеры из глаз достать !

    • @Trollge398
      @Trollge398 Рік тому

      Nope everything is fine in Russia

    • @dimbulb6443
      @dimbulb6443 Рік тому +4

      Hopefully you don’t get drafted when they announce another mobilisation.

  • @ilpazzo1257
    @ilpazzo1257 Рік тому +18

    I'm sad to see that a lot of the comments turn into a mess of "Europe is doing poorly too" (things are worse than in 2021, but as an Italian I find the comparison an insult to your experience), "good to see someone telling us to think with our own head" (lmfao like on not taking the vaccine?), and my favourite one here right now, "I'm scared of Ukrainian terror attacks".
    I am very pro-Ukraine on the matter. If I had military experience, I'd be there (and probably dead lol, war is still war). You only wished to share how you are doing in your life and frankly it was an amazing watch - it is important to remember that while some become monsters in these situations, there are still humans - and I'm sad to see that the comments basically turn your channel in some weird corner of UA-cam.
    Stay safe. plz don't get drafted :)

    • @mitonaarea5856
      @mitonaarea5856 Рік тому

      Pro Russian westerners are some of the most cringe people on the world, many of them are right wing dissidents. I put them on the same level of delusion as tankies tbh.

    • @reyoo24
      @reyoo24 Рік тому +4

      As a German I completely agree with u

    • @antonlevkovsky1667
      @antonlevkovsky1667 Рік тому +1

      Ukrainian opinion here - this rubbish needs to stop because it's a completely pointless meatgrinder. For Ukraine as a nation it's a suicide - at least from the demographic point of view. There is substantial amount of civilian Ukrainians in Ukraine only because the borders are locked for males 18-60. Had it not been the case the there would be 50% less people at this point. The govt drafts people without military mindset with increasingly drastic measures (in provincial towns there were incidents of packing people in a bus directly from streets). This will make shit of an army regardless of how many weapons is sent here, so I expect eventually some other EU country (Poland?) may have to join unofficially.

  • @patrickbrooks8748
    @patrickbrooks8748 10 місяців тому

    also an IT dude from russia who has left is gonna be smart enough to not do a job paying in rubles when the whole international market desperatly does not want rubles. exchange rates arent everything but if youre paid in rubles and live somewhere else, the exchange rate quite literally becomes everything. By that logic why would they all not learn english and get paid in dollars which always has a strong position in exchange markets from international demand

  • @BizzLeVrai
    @BizzLeVrai 10 місяців тому

    the only truth people will endure the consequences of the lies of the other

  • @brunobarros5154
    @brunobarros5154 Рік тому +27

    It is not only Russia that is doing badly, but the whole of Europe. The only difference is that we have Mc Donnalds and you don't. Greetings from Portugal!

    • @ablorenz
      @ablorenz Рік тому +15

      Russia's doing way way better than the EU is, you mean. Compare the inflation rates and consumer prices. Gas and electricity prices are abysmal in the European Union.
      Life in Russia has remained mostly unchanged, but in the EU its changed for the worse. If the sanctions are going to be extended for a long period (which they will); the downward spiral will continue.

    • @PskovCybercat
      @PskovCybercat Рік тому +3

      Greetings from Russia.
      🇷🇺❤️🇵🇹

    • @karelstanzel9510
      @karelstanzel9510 Рік тому

      You have to be a delusional Westerner to say that Europe is in a worse place than Russia. Perhaps Portugal (or the whole Iberian peninsula for that matter) is and was a mess for at least the last 2 centuries.

    • @liammadden7572
      @liammadden7572 Рік тому +8

      Russia is draining gold reserves fast and they aren’t getting it back either. Their currency is simply being propped up and most primary sources don’t cooberate a strong economy

    • @p00l_23
      @p00l_23 Рік тому +5

      @@liammadden7572 Russia's gold reserves have increased by 1 million ounces since February 2022. Why are you lying?

  • @SkyGlitchGalaxy
    @SkyGlitchGalaxy Рік тому +10

    What surprised me most was how Russians reacted to this war. I went to school with two Russians in Dublin, and both lived and worked in Ireland for a decade, and both are Z heads. Just two guys. But I can understand why the country's closest to Russia dont want immigration from that country.

    • @vzlomshik
      @vzlomshik Рік тому +6

      меня удивляет, что ирландцы даже свой родной язык не знают.

    • @Lanedl1
      @Lanedl1 9 місяців тому +2

      @@vzlomshik True! They were taken over by an imperialistic neighbor and forced to only use the occupier's language. Does that sound familiar?

    • @bungalowjuice7225
      @bungalowjuice7225 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@Lanedl1ooof, good one xD

  • @happyelephant5384
    @happyelephant5384 Рік тому +1

    What do you and other people from Moscow think about yesterday's drone attack?

    • @JamesSmith-ix5jd
      @JamesSmith-ix5jd Рік тому

      (I am not from Moscow, but still from Russia). We generally think that we are at war and such attacks were a given.
      But same as with the 90's and 2000's attacks on Russian cities we will persevere and will destroy the enemy.

    • @lemonov3031
      @lemonov3031 Рік тому +1

      It's a terrorist act and a scare tactic. If you take this shit seriously, you contribute to our country's loss. That's why you don't.

    • @QuantumR4ge
      @QuantumR4ge Рік тому

      @@JamesSmith-ix5jd Who is the enemy? The Ukrainian state?

    • @JamesSmith-ix5jd
      @JamesSmith-ix5jd Рік тому

      @@QuantumR4ge pro-American administration in Kiev, and any NATO force (direct or proxy) inside Ukraine.

    • @user-ue1lr7qk1h
      @user-ue1lr7qk1h Рік тому

      @@lemonov3031 собственно, что и делает Россия на протяжении полтора года войны? Только в случае атаки беспилотников на Москву не было жертв

  • @J2540-
    @J2540- Рік тому

    You are on the verge of greatness.

  • @janpol466
    @janpol466 Рік тому +5

    BTW, you forgot to mention our housing crisis, although it's not SMO related, but it's a HUGE problem, maybe even bigger than defeating Ukraine.

    • @Trollge398
      @Trollge398 Рік тому

      Don't worry putin will solve it once he solves ukarine special military operation

    • @liammadden7572
      @liammadden7572 Рік тому +1

      Dude everyone has a housing crisis but I feel like having a dictator might be the overarching issue. Also you guys aren’t gonna get Ukraine without demolishing your demographics

    • @user-rl8hf8kt1r
      @user-rl8hf8kt1r Рік тому

      ​@@liammadden7572 they don't want all of Ukraine......they want the east....and dectators can't live forever ..... Putin will go one away or another

    • @Trollge398
      @Trollge398 Рік тому

      @@liammadden7572 yeah in order to win war some young eggs need to be broken

    • @Батько7
      @Батько7 Рік тому

      О каком типе жилищного кризиса идёт речь🤔?

  • @johnsexton7621
    @johnsexton7621 5 місяців тому

    No one went out of business they just changed the label

  • @roberturbanczyk204
    @roberturbanczyk204 Рік тому

    I don't understand what's good about getting salary on time, its just normal like water in the tap

    • @RealPolitik-dy4it
      @RealPolitik-dy4it Рік тому +1

      You might be shocked, but most of the world have a steady access to neither.

  • @ransofaraway
    @ransofaraway Рік тому +5

    Barbarossa Operation was also a special military operation , I do not know why the soviets declared a war for that :(

    • @freakingabagool3510
      @freakingabagool3510 Рік тому

      It’s too bad the Germs didn’t wipe that shithole out tbh

    • @antonlevkovsky1667
      @antonlevkovsky1667 Рік тому +1

      @@freakingabagool3510 It will continue to plague you for centuries to come exactly because of this attitude.

    • @freakingabagool3510
      @freakingabagool3510 Рік тому +1

      @@antonlevkovsky1667 no, it won’t, because Russia is collapsing right now lmao

    • @antonlevkovsky1667
      @antonlevkovsky1667 Рік тому +2

      @@freakingabagool3510 Did you watch the vid? It is "collapsing" since 2014. How many more decades left till it finally collapses?

    • @stendeter623
      @stendeter623 Рік тому +1

      ​@Anton Levkovsky the Russian empire has collapsed, the ussr has collapsed. Starting to see a pattern here?

  • @Commonwealth-ex7ev
    @Commonwealth-ex7ev Рік тому +5

    On the topic of people in Russia... are you not going to count the nearly 3 million Ukranian refugees who moved there? More than any other European country.
    Becuase somehow I doubt they'll be going back to Ukraine once the war is over. That is of course if there is even a Ukraine left to return to.

    • @RainerMichelle
      @RainerMichelle Рік тому +4

      you are talking about the Ukrainians who got deported to Russia by force from the occupied territories? especially tens of thousands of children

    • @FreedMordheim
      @FreedMordheim Рік тому +16

      @@RainerMichelleno, he is talking about those, who moved because of their own reason. From my experience, most of those move to Russia simply because they have relatives here, who can accommodate them for the time being.

    • @RainerMichelle
      @RainerMichelle Рік тому

      @@FreedMordheim if you think that there are still Ukrainians that would move to Russia out of free will, you must have fallen on your head, Russia has declared genocide on the Ukrainian people, would you move in with the murderer of your children?

    • @Mortablunt
      @Mortablunt Рік тому

      @@RainerMichelle So rescuing kids from dying homeless or being murdered by Nazis is a crime now?

  • @jefclark
    @jefclark Рік тому +2

    'we were asked once again to suffer for the greater good' *shows clip of smiling well dressed Putin sashaying down a red carpet*

  • @tnickknight
    @tnickknight Рік тому +2

    Russia still has reserves. It will only hit hard when the credit card is out (which is getting nearer). Until then, its party on.

  • @rook513
    @rook513 Рік тому +8

    Love Russia from Vietnam 👍

  • @Sheqeer
    @Sheqeer Рік тому +4

    Начиная с 24 февраля 2022 года территорию России покинули 162 актера театра и кино, что составляет 0,6% от общего числа, только 16 из них известные 😊
    С культурой все хорошо у нас, особенно с театром и классической музыкой😉

    • @snowsnow4231
      @snowsnow4231 Рік тому +7

      Я думаю автор видео ходит в театр так же часто как я посещаю МКС. Из культурной сферы выдавливается масса людей которая по дефолту настроена оппозиционно, это люди которые по жизни настроены против любой власти, это вечно недовольные псевдо интеллигенты в белом пальто, непонятые гении и прочие шизы.
      В моем городе Новосибирске один из самых грандиозных театров в стране, я посещал театры в Питере, Москве, Риме, наша страна создала все условия для культурной жизни, все мои родственники регулярно ходят в оперный театр, если им не нравится здесь, то на их место с радостью придут новые, молодые, более активные и позитивные люди. Просто определенные личности засиделись, зажрались и убедили себя сами в своей незаменимой гениальности.
      Банально ютубер Сатир - яркий тому пример, я на всем западном ютубе не видел пародиста и актера лучше Сатира.

    • @vitaliiguba1720
      @vitaliiguba1720 11 місяців тому

      @@snowsnow4231 Актеры театра из-за совести не могут в стране оставаться. Только выиграли.

    • @snowsnow4231
      @snowsnow4231 11 місяців тому +3

      @@vitaliiguba1720 и из за совести едут в Израиль где палестинцев за людей не считают. Какая ирония.

  • @wedrownysowianin9387
    @wedrownysowianin9387 Рік тому +1

    Good, mostly objective view of Russia. Listening to some people, Russia has been collapsing "any day now" for the past year while I'm sure Russian news is telling you they will take Kiev any day now for just as long.

    • @user-jl7xw2pf3h
      @user-jl7xw2pf3h Рік тому +1

      As a Russian, I can say we don’t talk about the quick capture of Kyiv and there is no propaganda