| generic-user-1 said: im pretty sure russia lets in refugees if they come to the borders. and those refugees will settle in the richer western parts of russia and not far east. and as sovereign country, you could do the world a favour and nuke riad next time they finance a terrorattac in russia. |
If we go by median payroll per capita there's no rich West vs poor East in Russia, more like rich urban vs poor rural territory. Well, if you don't count Moscow which is roughly x1,5 when compared to other big cities: Urals, Western or Eastern Siberia or Far East are all good options for Ukrainian refugees. Actually, Far Northern regions are the wealthies in that regard for obvious reasons. There's modest number of Ukrainians in place I live, judging by the new kids from Ukraine in the school my kid goes to and abnormal for Siberia fricative "gkh" sound I hear on the streets once in a while :D No surpises, given liberal conditions we have for Russian-speakers (full naturliazation within 3 months if you try really hard). Besides I doubt those region-specific differences are of such imoprtance given average Ukrainian income was like 3 times smaller than neighbourghing country's before Maidan.
Nuking Riyadh is counter-productive, since it will be quite a disaster for everyone involved in oil production, transportation and consumption, importers and exporters alike. Current state of affairs in the Near East is not pretty as it is, why make it worse? Besides it looks like it'll deteriorate without our help.
