If you cannot tell from a cursory reading that this is anti-Russian, well...

He makes sweeping generalizations about the Russian state based on personal experience with his neighbors bulldozing a "disused airfield", which apparently is used by his kids to ride their bikes.

My neighborhood has been trying to put in sidewalks for the past couple of years.  To do this, we need the unanimous approval of everyone living there.  Two households are still witholding their approval.  Both are older couples who say, "We don't want sidewalks.  If we put them in, we'll have crazy skate-boarding punks passing our house all the time."  In the same situation, Lucas would invariably infer that all Americans are anti-youth.