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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door tomm

De Russische economie is aan het herstellen en de roebel is aan een remonte bezig, daar zijn alle internationale waarnemers het over eens. Rusland heeft ook nog vele miljarden aan reserves, terwijl de olieprijs terug aan een opwaartse beweging bezig is.

Je spreekt -uiteraard- de kremlin-progaganda na waarbij altijd alles prima en beter gaat, een neo-communistisch paradijs als het ware.

De realiteit is iets minder kremlin-disney echter :
zowat 30% van de russen zitten momenteel onder de russische armoedegrens van 150$ per maand en hun aantal neemt toe.


http://rbth.co.uk/society/2015/06/04...tes_46625.html

More and more Russians slipping below poverty line as recession bites
June 4, 2015 Yekaterina Sinelschikova, RBTH

As sanctions continue to take their toll on Russia’s faltering economy and salaries shrink in real terms, an increasing number of Russians are finding themselves unable to make ends meet. Data published by Russia’s state statistics bureau Rosstat indicates that 11 percent of Russians were living below the poverty line in 2014, but experts have called the veracity of these figures into question


As Russia’s economy continues to slide into recession under the effect of Western sanctions and falling relative incomes, figures published by Russia’s state statistics bureau Rosstat show that 16 million people, or 11 percent of the population, found themselves below the poverty line in 2014.
However, Russian experts claim that this figure is far too low: The Rosstat statistics are merely the official data, which analysts traditionally see as unreliable. They warn that the official figures underestimate the problem and that in 2015 almost one in five Russians may find themselves in dire financial straits.

According to alternative estimates, even a year ago 25 to 40 percent of Russian citizens described themselves as poor. Yelena Kiselyova of the Institute for Complex Strategic Studies told RBTH that while 40 percent is “certainly an exaggeration,” 30 percent is “quite a realistic figure.”
“Official” poverty comes when incomes fall below the minimum subsistence level. Today, the minimum is 8,000 rubles a month ($150) per person. “Until recently, the number of poor in the country had been steadily declining since 2000. Even during the last crisis [in 2008] there was no significant increase in the number of poor,” said Kiselyova.

But with wages and incomes shrinking, and most of this money going to cover food costs, housing and communal services, and other priority needs, there is no money left for other expenses, such as loan payments. “Today we are seeing an increase in the number of second and third loans that are taken out to service previously taken loans,” said Kiselyova.