hooten also faces more severe economic pressures than is widely believed.n's claim that industrial regions are recovering. pollution has dropped 6.2%, more than during the peak of the pandemic. russian officials statistics claim that annual industrial production actually rose by 1.2% in march. and the professor at the yale school of management has pointed out that russia's energy revenue is down as a result of the g7 price cap on russian oil. meanwhile, the budget deficit has soared. there is one silver lining for putin. whatever russian elites might think of him, he is still overwhelmingly popular with the public. he has an enviable 83% approval rating according to the independent lovato center. moreover, the public does support his ill considered war. but according to the report, it keeps elites who may privately oppose the war from speaking out. the danger is not that the putin regime might collapse from within, she says, but even under him it could transform into something monstrous, ruthless, inhumane, a reign of fear. as bad as the putin regime looks