Social Setup
At the start of the 90s, the gap between Russia’s rich and poor grew steadily, its continued to grow to this day where the wealthiest %10 earn nearly ten times as much as the poorest 10$% of Russian people. Full employment on a minimum wage job basically get you by with your necessities. The social classes of Russia consist of the Capitalist class, the worker class, and peasant or in other terms: The upper class, the middle class and the poor class. Ethnicity and race are not the major cultural barriers in the country, rather the social classes do. Russian ethnicity and race can be tuned down to a top 5; Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukraine 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, and other 12.1%. Russia has quite a few social organizations …show more content…
The Orthodox Church has well over 1k years of power and strong political history along with spiritual influences over Russians. Their beliefs are based on the bible traditions that are clearly defined by seven ecumenical councils between A.D 325-787. The highest official of the church is the patriarch. The patriarch is basically the pope of the Orthodox faith. Matters relating to the religion are taken up with the Ecumenical council and the patriarch. Russia’s new openness to its society attracted many different religious activists around the world. In Russia you can find Swiss Protestants, Roman Catholic missionaries, German Lutherans, many catholic orders, Catholics, Christians, the unification church and the church of scientology. Nearly half the Russian population is Russian orthodoxy, 6.5% is Islam, and the rest is a mix of the listed religions above. The word Orthodox means “right belief” or “right phrase” and the Orthodox church is also known as the “eastern European Orthodox …show more content…
Even rent is of a large 36.9% lower than in Canada. Due to a lot of the sanctions being pushed on Russia currently for the escalation in Ukraine and the Middle East, has caused the country to enter a finical crisis. This problem for the pensioners which unfortunately make up one third of the total population. So with prices rising, and living standards declining, people are beginning to lose trust in Putin’s “firm Grasp”. A typical Russian day would consist of a hearty breakfast, a late lunch, and large substantial dinners, with few evening snacks. The national food of Russia is “pelmeni” which is essential ground meat stuffed inside thin dough. (Much like a pierogi). Modern Russians dress much like everyone else in the west, there only difference in clothing are much warmer jackets due to their harsh winter months. Russian housing is typically blocks of flats, semidetached houses, detached houses, and bungalows. However there is mass variation in housing, diet/nutrition and clothing depending on which region in Russia you are. Russia is just simply too large to say that the same “typical” meal or house in Moscow will vary drastically then that of someone in
At the start of the 90s, the gap between Russia’s rich and poor grew steadily, its continued to grow to this day where the wealthiest %10 earn nearly ten times as much as the poorest 10$% of Russian people. Full employment on a minimum wage job basically get you by with your necessities. The social classes of Russia consist of the Capitalist class, the worker class, and peasant or in other terms: The upper class, the middle class and the poor class. Ethnicity and race are not the major cultural barriers in the country, rather the social classes do. Russian ethnicity and race can be tuned down to a top 5; Russian 79.8%, Tatar 3.8%, Ukraine 2%, Bashkir 1.2%, Chuvash 1.1%, and other 12.1%. Russia has quite a few social organizations …show more content…
The Orthodox Church has well over 1k years of power and strong political history along with spiritual influences over Russians. Their beliefs are based on the bible traditions that are clearly defined by seven ecumenical councils between A.D 325-787. The highest official of the church is the patriarch. The patriarch is basically the pope of the Orthodox faith. Matters relating to the religion are taken up with the Ecumenical council and the patriarch. Russia’s new openness to its society attracted many different religious activists around the world. In Russia you can find Swiss Protestants, Roman Catholic missionaries, German Lutherans, many catholic orders, Catholics, Christians, the unification church and the church of scientology. Nearly half the Russian population is Russian orthodoxy, 6.5% is Islam, and the rest is a mix of the listed religions above. The word Orthodox means “right belief” or “right phrase” and the Orthodox church is also known as the “eastern European Orthodox …show more content…
Even rent is of a large 36.9% lower than in Canada. Due to a lot of the sanctions being pushed on Russia currently for the escalation in Ukraine and the Middle East, has caused the country to enter a finical crisis. This problem for the pensioners which unfortunately make up one third of the total population. So with prices rising, and living standards declining, people are beginning to lose trust in Putin’s “firm Grasp”. A typical Russian day would consist of a hearty breakfast, a late lunch, and large substantial dinners, with few evening snacks. The national food of Russia is “pelmeni” which is essential ground meat stuffed inside thin dough. (Much like a pierogi). Modern Russians dress much like everyone else in the west, there only difference in clothing are much warmer jackets due to their harsh winter months. Russian housing is typically blocks of flats, semidetached houses, detached houses, and bungalows. However there is mass variation in housing, diet/nutrition and clothing depending on which region in Russia you are. Russia is just simply too large to say that the same “typical” meal or house in Moscow will vary drastically then that of someone in