Who lives well in Russia?

Grigory Pasko, journalist

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In their day, every schoolchild in the USSR knew the phrase that serves as the title of this article – a poem by the Russian poet Nekrasov with such a name entered into the mandatory program of school education. Sometimes people remember this phrase today as well, but exclusively in a caustic tone, when they want to underscore the social inequality of people. Because nowadays the only ones who live well are those who are close to the power, who are loyal to it. Moreover, there are whole companies that even in the epoch of crisis can feel themselves well and reliably protected by this power. It goes without saying that those for whom the living is always good in such conditions try not to think that they’re living at the expense of all the taxpayers of the entire country.