Class, Population, and Space

The catching-up modernization in post-communist Russia caused demodernization & de-industrialization of the economy, leaving no chance of getting closer to post-industrial society. What the country needs is to invent a national model of modernization. Russia's unripe political class focuses on itself & shows little concern about the depopulation of the country & about the problems of its sparsely populated regions. Adapted from the source document.