Lol I feel zero connections with it and also with Armenia since my mother is armenian, almost all ex-ussr republics are doomed, you can take people out of ussr, but you can't take ussr out of people, 90% of the ex-ussr republics are autocratic regimes in which 1% of the population owns everything (the resources, the media and so on) - the president and his friends, siblings, business partners and so on and people there and here in russia doesn't want to change a thing about it, even the younger generation is fucked up, they just don't care, and nothing will change here since putin is going for another term in 2018 and ofc he will easily win it because his main electorare are pensioners and government employees (teachers, cops, deputies, judges etc. etc.) and he has a full support in their persons. Plus there is no real elections in Russia, if they let you participate in the elections then you are either their puppet or they are 100% sure you won't get any good numbers % of the voices on it, that's how autocratic regimes are working alongside with the vertical of power. Probably you ever heard about Alexey Navalny and his team that fights against the Putin's corruption so here few facts about him - he was sentenced conditionally twice here for absolutely bullshit reasons, (he even won couple of cases in the european human rights court against russian federation) but he wasn't put in jail because Putin is scared of the mass demonstrations in Moscow because it occurred couple of times before when Navalny was arrested for peaceful protests, so they've tried to stop through the family and they put his brother in jail for another bullshit reason, also he can't participate in any elections until 2034 or something, they've blocked and canceled license of his party, anyway he is still doing his job, he already did numerous of investigations in which he proved huge corruption facts about Putin, his close friends, people in power, deputies etc. etc., fuck they even proved the connections of the general attorney and his siblings with the local mafia in the couple of regions and guess what? nobody went to jail because, general attorney is still general attorney and he even was prolonged by Putin for another term