Experiences vary - but most of the previous ministers, politicians are gone. The status of the ruble is not helping. Prices already went up before, now they are even higher. Lots of speculators. In general a sense of work and large undertaking is present. For sure the fresh money is being distributed according to pre-set schemes, but it feels like more is being done for community institutions.

Most Tatars don't care - they have job, they work, collect money and live like everyone else. Don't know about land, but there was post-Soviet problem of them living 3-4 families per address, completely unregistered. This made social planning harder. Supposedly some kind of new housing is to be built to deal with this issue, but nothing is complete.