That would be OK. According to Eric Karus in the latest "Truth and Beauty"
By contrast with some of its more democratic peers in the West, Russian policy been singlemindedly focused upon supporting the poorer segments of the population raising wages and pensions, rather than on bailing out the owners of financial assets. Medvedev has stressed the vital importance of maintaining the >50% decline in poverty acheived over the past decade.
But, just as wizened generals sent millions of men to charge machine guns in WWI, I fear that ideology will trump reality in the U.S. of A & that the bottom up approach will be late and half-hearted.
Joanna