The ongoing media propaganda war against Syria

Discussion in 'Latest US & World News' started by trout mask replica, Oct 11, 2016.

  1. Papastox

    Papastox Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jul 11, 2014
    Messages:
    10,296
    Likes Received:
    2,731
    Trophy Points:
    113
    No doubt that Putin has at least $20 billion that he has taken from the people which explains why people in Russia are at the poverty level. If the average salary is less than $450 a month that is only 28,132 rubles. How do you live on $5400 a YEAR? People in China and Kazakhstan make more. What is Putin doing to his people?


    Average monthly salary in Russia fell by 35 percent in 2015, report says

    ANADOLU AGENCY
    MOSCOW
    Published
    May 24, 2016


    A weakened ruble against the U.S. dollar caused the average Russian monthly wage to drop to $558 last year, a 34 percent fall compared to 2014, the report from Moscow's Higher School of Economics said.

    The sharp fall put Russia on par with Kazakhstan, where the average salary in 2015 was $549, the report added.

    Russian Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev on Thursday refused demands for a raise in pensions.

    On a visit to the annexed peninsula of Crimea, Medvedev was approached by a woman who said her retirement pension was 8,000 rubles a month ($120), and asked for a raise.

    "I worked for 45 years, and [now] get 8,000 rubles. You said there would be an improvement. Where is it?" the woman asked.

    Medvedev replied, "We have no money", adding that a raise is only in the cards if the economic situation improves.

    The PM later told locals to "hang on".

    Russia's average monthly wage in 2016 has fallen under $450, which is less than the Chinese average, Sberbank chief analyst Mikhail Matovnikov was quoted as saying by the TASS news agency last week.

    Meanwhile, the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (also known as Rosstat) announced that real income fell 7.1 percent in April year-on-year.

    According to a proposal recently submitted to the Russian government by the Ministry of Economic Development, there is a plan to keep cutting wages until 2019, in order to reach GDP growth of 4.5 pct.

    As a country relying on oil and gas exports for more than 60 percent of its revenues, Russia's economy has been hit hard since a drop in oil prices in 2014.

    The sharp loss in the value of the Russian ruble against the U.S. dollar was further exacerbated by the sanctions placed on the country following Crimea's annexation and the crisis in Ukraine, pushing annual inflation in 2015 up to 12.9 percent, leading to a 9.5 percent fall in real wages.
     
  2. Balancer

    Balancer Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 5, 2015
    Messages:
    1,926
    Likes Received:
    299
    Trophy Points:
    83
    Gender:
    Male
    Any proof?

    1. The average salary in Russia in 2016 is 36200 rubles. You have the old numbers, the standard of living in Russia is growing every year.

    2. We in Russia are buying goods for US dollars and in rubles :) For example, a kilogram of potatoes at us costs 15-20 rubles. Meat from 300 to 500 rubles per kilogram. That is on one salary per month a person can buy 4000-5000 pounds of potatoes or 200-250 pounds of meat.

    Big-Mac at McDonald's is 130 rubles. 278 Big-Macs on one salary per month.

    Electricity is 4-5 rubles per kWh, ie You can buy 7000-9000 kWh per month salary.

    Internet and mobile telephony costs an average of 100-300 rubles a month. At home I have a chic online channel to 100Mbit/s with unlimited bandwidth, dedicated white IP and Internet-TV (100+ channels) costs about 800 rubles a month ($12). Unlimited 4G-Internet via mobile costs 300 rubles ($4.5).

    And so on. If interested, I can give you and other prices :)

    4. More such trifles. In Russia, the free medicine. Free childrengartens, free schools, free colleges/universities. I do not need to wrestle with how to pay college for my children - it fully free. Even in the calculation of wages there is a difference - in Russia are considered the money given to the hands. In the United States - before taxes. What you are giving tax from his salary on average? 30%? So, given all these details, your $5400 a year has turned into something like $20,000 a year. Excluding the free medicine and education. I do not know how to count them, but they get even more :) So, if you give to health care and education at least a third of their income, the Russian average salary will already amount to the equivalent of $30,000 a year.

    5. You do not consider that the Russians have something to compare the current salary. In 2000, when Putin came to power, the average salary in Russia is about $50 per month. $600 per year :D Salaries tenfold increase in 16 years - I think that people have something like the current government: D

    6. Finally, if you divide the hypothetical $20 billion per 144 million Russians, you get for $138 in the hands of everyone. A trifle, not worth attention. 27% of the average salary of one.

    In China, there is our level of free medicine and education. And the standard of living there is lower. No wonder all the Western production is concentrated there. For the money, for which the Chinese works, in Russia, people simply will not work :D And you made a mistake with Kazakhstan. There's wages are lower, and therefore Russian Kazakhs massively go to work in Russia.
     
  3. Johnny Brady

    Johnny Brady New Member

    Joined:
    Sep 21, 2016
    Messages:
    3,377
    Likes Received:
    45
    Trophy Points:
    0
    Our oil-obsessed politicos are all trying to get their foot in the door for a slice of the pie-

    [​IMG]
     

Share This Page