Why has CAPITALISM failed in RUSSIA? - VisualPolitik EN

This video is sponsored by NordVPN. Go to to get a 2-year plan plus 1 additional month with a huge discount. It’s risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee! After abandoning communism, Russia does not seem to have entered an era of prosperity. Quite the contrary. The Russians are still a long way from entering what we might call the “developed world.“ And their economy has nothing to do with the free market capitalism we see in the United States, Europe or many parts of Asia. Russia’s recent decades have been dominated by corruption, financial crises and many regions living in poverty. What has gone wrong in this country? Why has Russia failed in its transition to capitalism? What role do Boris Yeltsin or Vladimir Putin have in this story? And what exactly is siloviki capitalism? In this video we tell you.