Sooner or later, all countries face the issue of loyalty. Some states manage to maintain stability in society, others don’t. And the issue of prosperity is not the main one, it does not contribute to the strengthening of citizens’ loyalty to their state. Rather, the opposite is true. Prosperity often contributes to the disruption of loyalty.
In Russia today, the biggest ideological conflicts are often obscured by discussing them under ‘the rubric of whether or not democracy is the correct name to describe the current arrangement of Russia.’
