MOSCOW, March 17. /TASS/. More than 70% of Russia’s citizens, according to the World Bank’s system of estimation, belong to the middle class, and the task of the government is to strengthen ...

For context, the state rating agency RIA Ratings defines the middle class as earning more than 100,000 rubles ($926) per month for a single person and 150,000 rubles ($1,389) for a household ...

One morning in October 2021, I woke with a sense of anticipation - and a little concern. I had agreed to give a talk about my latest book, The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial ...