This post is three months old when it showed up in my feed. I find the comments as interesting as the article.

I question several of the claims you (OP - "original poster") make, but I don't live in Russia or have trusted sources there to report on daily life.

I look at this post more in the light of, "If an American posted something after 9/11 on a Mid-East Arabic 'Medium'-site, this is what it might look like." The comments are what the Mid-Easterners would post. Of the 24 reponses at the time I read this, I think 22 are virtually substance-free and 2 have something to add.

After Nordstream II was sabotaged, the Kerch bridge attack, the Kharkov advances by Ukraine, and mostly the 300k reserves called up by the Russian military, I wonder if OP still says that things are normal in Moscow.

It is true that sanctions continue to be eased to this day. New sanctions were eased on fertilizer and a couple of other things just in the last week or so.

Ukraine is definitely taking a pounding right now. I feel horrible for the people without heat, power and/or water there.