@Renegade_GDI@mastodon.world
You are 100% right! You can't have centralized political system without having centralized economy. And when your economy is basically state-owned enterprises exporting oil/gas, only state has the money and people simply cannot afford fighting for their rights.
2016 was the year they literally crushed small businesses in Moscow: https://youtube.com/watch?v=npMBt-TIBzA