Putin and the war at home. The new iron curtain is in Moscow
There war in Ukraine is causing a drastic and radical change of balances of the world. While a Kiev and in the other cities the fighting continues, parallel to the Russia has begun an internal war. fly in fact – reads the Corriere della Sera – it was isolated from the rest of the world. As in the days of the Iron Curtain. Yesterday afternoon it reminded us of this, the photo of the board of the Domodedovo airport. The only international flights landed in the Russian capital came from Dubai, Baku, and Yerevan, which with all due respect are not exactly the center of the world. Today it was still possible to leave, but only for the Georgia, Armenia and the Turkey and the trip cost more than a thousand euros.
There Russia – continues the Corriere – has never been so far from the world. The consultation of the search engines for the best flight offers now produces surreal results. The cheaper travel for fly provides one duration of 35 hoursand to go from there to Paris today it would take ten more, with one or two stopovers, it depends on the money. Now the border guards they open the cell phone to their compatriots on departure, asking to show the respective social traffic. Control, an absolute novelty in recent history, is accompanied by questions of a political nature. Are you with Putin? What do you think about this situation? There Russia is more and more isolated from the rest of the world.
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