How are Russian Jews so much worse off now than they were 20 years ago?
Let's see:
Putin is supplying the mullahs of Iran every nuclear technical requirement for the unthinkable. If for some reason the situation concerning Iran's nukes becomes very ugly and Putin is blamed for transferring the nuclear knowhow enabling the mullahs to undertake a threatening position, there could very well be a backlash inside Russia.
It's happened before in the land of the pogroms. I don't trust the damn Russians as far as I could thrown them.
Are you opposed to aliyah?