The refrigerator will win the game on television, predicted the Russian columnist Semyon Novoprudski the point in an article to the coexistence of two Russias: the “common sense” represented by the refrigerator as an expression of basic needs, and “national myth” victim of nationalist propaganda deployed by the media.
Russia has become accustomed: the crisis and recession; the low oil and the ruble by clouds, which have left 5 million new poor; the Siberian parmesan and muscovite ham, which have replaced in stores copies by the embargo that prohibits importing Western foods.
“No money. When we find him, we will raise pensions. Resist “said few days ago a burdened Dmitri Medvedev, Russian Prime Minister when a retired rebuked him in Crimea for just 100 euros charged by Russian pensioners, to top it not have been updated this year by inflation.
Media and critical bloggers did justice to the prime minister stating, sarcastically, that the spread of video with the troubles happened Medvedev shows that in Russia no freedom of expression. all be guilty of the people’s problems except one person, President Vladimir Putin
in another outburst of sincerity, nothing spontaneous unlike I had Medvedev adviser Putin on economic, Andei Belousov, admitted this week that Russia has added 5 million new poor since the crisis began.
-Text in a country where prices of basic food and clothing not far from Europe and are often even higher, to be poor is to have income of less than 10,187 rubles (about $ 155) a month. At the moment, television trumps long heading to the refrigerator, but as pointed Novoprudski, “common sense is very vindictive, so no sugar or toilet paper in Venezuela”.
EFE correspondent in Russia
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