Anybody still watching?
Newsweek blurb (Newsweek is just columns and blurbs now, and virtually no reporting) on how Russia's professional class is fleeing the country.
So who gets left behind? Not the get-up-and-go types, because--increasingly--they've gotten up and gone, boding very badly for Russia's business DNA pool.
Reminds me of the death-and-dying vibe of Earthicans (Futurama term) left behind in "Blade Runner." A very negative sign.
And once gone, Russian businessmen do not return out of fear of being jailed by policy, who are "colluding with organized criminals to seize control of legitimate businesses."
Putin started this whole trend; now Medvedev tries to reverse by decrying "legal nihilism."
Until the regime gets serious about this, Russia has only a present--no future.