Independent polling agrees with you: https://www.rbc.ru/politics/18/05/2022/62825a8f9a794718a6e8560f/ https://www.rbc.ru/politics/18/05/2022/62825a8f9a794718a6e

Independent polling agrees with you: https://www.rbc.ru/politics/18/05/2022/62825a8f9a794718a6e8560f/ https://www.rbc.ru/politics/18/05/2022/62825a8f9a794718a6e85... And the Russian leadership certainly is gerontocratic: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/01/31/the-old-guard https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/01/31/the-old-guard As for the social leverage, I don't think they have much on the national level. However, I feel the lower-rung govt staff is mostly composed of 50-something women, and these also dominate meetings of homeowner associations. The men are either hard at work or already dead, and the younger people are not numerous and don't have much rights.