Is this an accurate observation of Russia and Russians?
Cummings moved to Russia and lived there until 1997. He shared a flat with the later Brexit-supporting economist Liam Halligan. He worked for a group attempting to set up an airline connecting Samara in southern Russia to Vienna in Austria which George Parker of the Financial Times said was "spectacularly unsuccessful". Cummings departed Russia in 1997 and reflects very poorly on the country and his time there, calling Russia a "primordially abnormal country" and an "intrinsic mafia society," whose people differ from westerners "more than the Chinese or Japanese" on a "subatomic level... to the point of being diametric opposites on everything."