Globalization In Russia Essay

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How has globalisation has affected Russia in the last 10 years?
Globalisation is a integration into different cultures by importing different tools, like food, machinery, world views. Russia has changed significantly in the last years, when the regime has been changed, it is a turning point in some way for the country. When in 1991 Soviet Union has collapsed that has changed the Russian way of living forever. In Soviet Union main rule was to “get everything by yourself”, government wanted people to be able to live in a peace and helping each other, everyone should equal and without having different clothes, style, cars and main thing is - without having different future, but, suddenly, everything became different with a collapse of Soviet Union. …show more content…

On one hand, the change in politics in 1991 helped the country to integrate, but at the same time it changed a lot in a bad way since the Ukrainian crisis. Firstly, from 1991-2000 there was very difficult time for Russian people, where there were many opportunities for people to do what they to do in the lives, but however that time was full of violence and corruption. Previously, all housing was government-owned, but during that time many people started to buy them (L.Alien, 2008). That was the time, when Russian mafia was born, there were controlling many businesses, and it was ordinary thing to hear shots in the middle of the day. After that time, started a calm one, people started to open new businesses and slowly get rid of mafia, which was controlling it before. A lot of foreign clothes was brought to Russia, where it was very popular, along with technology, which has improved the lives of people and government as well, like German technology, Japanese car, American food. Many foreign restaurants were opening, so people, who even do not have a chance to visit another countries, could not try a bit of different cultures. Many languages became available to study for children in schools and travelling became more available, for people did not even dream of it. Russia stated to globalise slowly but on the right track. Very country has fluctuations in it’s development, that also …show more content…

However, by changing to democracy, people have chances to get to know different culture and it would not be possible without

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