https://www.gazeta.ru/army/2018/10/17/12024469.shtml
Putin raises the retirement age, inflaming the street. Will he find an external enemy to shore up support?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-pensions-and-the-risk-of-war-1539730575
When disgruntled Russian voters decided to express their anger at a five-year increase in the retirement age, they handed victory in key polls to a nationalist party whose leader routinely urges the Kremlin to carry out nuclear strikes against Moscow’s foes.Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s Liberal Democratic
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/putins-stooge-suddenly-wants-the-leading-role-hsghptspp
U.S. sanctions have driven the price of oil and the ruble apart—leaving Russia with expensive crude and a cheaper currency, a combination that is helping its economy.
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3772350
http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5BC5C87ECA6AA