It s a booming capital, where casinos stay open all night, and it doesn t resemble Moscow of the end of the Soviet era at all, but the rest of the country is actually desperate. People are in despair. You find whole towns where this boom town mentality has not spread. It s a great puzzle to a lot of people. It s not happening, and it s a big puzzle.
People are cynical and pessimistic.
And I think actually a very small number of them are beginning to adapt and to change and change that attitude. There s a middle class in Moscow. Those people are optimistic. There s a very small number of people who ve made it to an upper class. They re optimistic.