By Ben Aris in Berlin The war in Ukraine is creating a new middle class in Russia. Soaring incomes, plenty of jobs for anyone that wants them, and huge amounts of government investment into some of Russia’s poorest regions where most of the defence industry have its factories has done more to undo Russia’s legendary income inequality than all of the government’s programmes over the last three decades of independence. A report commissioned by Defence Minister Andrei Belousov by the Centre for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting (CMASF), identified rapid changes to the make-up of R…