Russia’s new middle class can’t afford for Putin’s war to end

The Russian city of Volgograd was the location of one of the bloodiest fights in world history. The seven-month-long Battle of Stalingrad, as the city was known in 1943, claimed half a million Soviet lives. More than 80 years later, the Russian version of Facebook is awash with government ads encouraging men in the city to join today’s war effort i...