The drop in real incomes of Russians plunged from 1.4% in January of last year to 6.3% in the same period this year. The real impoverishment and even the impoverishment of most Russians is much deeper – as due to the understatement of official inflation and concentration of wealth in the most narrow layer of wealthy oligarchs, officials and their servants. Acceptable way of life is supported by the majority of families by purchased in previous years household appliances; when it begins to wear power fail, socio-political stability of the country ranges even under favorable statistics.
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