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Stay strong, hopefully, Russia will collapse and you'll be free - I may be naive but I still think there are enough Russians who can see this tragedy as the doing of a man who wants to continue to live the life of a king, and it's probably his only way of survival after so many murdering and prosecution.
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Stay strong, hopefully, Russia will collapse and you'll be free - I may be naive but I still think there are enough Russians who can see this tragedy as the doing of a man who wants to continue to live the life of a king, and it's probably his only way of survival after so many murdering and prosecution.
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Shadowsocks and ShadowsocksR don’t work anymore in my experience in China or Iran. V2ray does which is the successor to those.
Shadowsocks does work against MITM attacks by my US ISP Comcast though. It is great software.
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Russia produces more container ships by tonnage than the US with a fraction of the population, to pick just one example of many. Before SpaceX, the US was dependent on them for rides to the ISS. They produce some of the most formidable and battle-tested military-technical systems in the world. How exactly is that a failed state? Seems like you want other people to make the same decision you did since maybe you’re uns…
Besides manufacturing capability, I think determining whether something is a "failed state" or not, you need to look at other things, focusing more on social details. Is the government truly democratic? Is the law applied more-or-less fairly and equally? Is the press free, and are people able to discuss things without fear?
Aside from manufacturing exports, how is the internal economy - are people able to afford the basics, and things that might be considered luxuries? How's education, how's the ability to travel both internally and externally, how's economic and social mobility?
I don't think container-ship-tonnage is a great metric of whether something is a failed state or not.
I'd expect the government to cool down expansive internet censorship until the "elections" in March, since hitting the preapproved outcome figures will be harder this way.
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no need, but thanks. daily routine become a more painful, because of two-way blocking. i even cant read new science paperwork from US universities, they're block whole ASN's. we're slowly moving to great firewall, i suppose.
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That doesn't makes much sense. Also, it hardly fits the definition of a "failed state", the current authoritarian (verging on totalitarian) Russian government has been pretty effective at maintaining political stability and had (and generally still has) very effective control over its people (more so than successful democratic, not that it's really comparable) over the last 20 years.
The same applied to the USSR during most of its history.
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