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Other forums => Current Affairs => Topic started by: Dmitry on December 03, 2014, 11:45:57 AM
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Russia pays dearly for Olympic games, Crimea, Ukraine...
The devaluation of rubble is threatening. A year ago $1 cost 33 rubles and €1 - 45 rubles, now $1 costs 54, and €1 = 67 rubles :o
All around (incl. petrol and food) is constantly going up, but salary stay the same.
Сonsidering also that most goods (food, electronics, children things etc.) are from abroad, you can imagine how is our life here.
I always bought things from EU, US and Japan, because quality of Russian things is unsatisfactorily.
Even my car is Renault and all my websites one day migrated from Russian hosting to American one.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/ruble-hits-new-low-as-oil-prices-drop-1417441184 (http://online.wsj.com/articles/ruble-hits-new-low-as-oil-prices-drop-1417441184)
I always recieve about 100 thousands rubles a month. It was 3000 bucks year ago, and only 1800 now.
I host Beatles website and forums at justhost.com and have to pay for 2015 year $143.88. I say about it in case you know what it could mean roll:)
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Just count up how much my appartments cost now. $127 thousands. Two years ago it was $187 thousands.
Entertaining arithmetic ha2ha
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I know you're not so interested as I am, but it really looks like Russia is sinking. Wow! I wish I could leave the boat...
$1 costs 65, and €1 = 80 rubles.
It means prices here will grow up at least in two times.
I always knew that Russia is very weak, because its budget 75% consists of revenue from oil and gas. Putin only knows how to sell natural resources, spend money recklessly and steal boldly. He has nothing to say us except that everything is under control.
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Sorry, Putin. Russia’s economy is doomed
...Russia doesn't so much have an economy as it has an oil exporting business that subsidizes everything else. That's why the combination of more supply from the United States, and less demand from Europe, China, and Japan has hit them particularly hard. Cheaper oil means Russian companies have fewer dollars to turn into rubles, which is just another way of saying that there's less demand for rubles—so its price is falling. It hasn't helped, of course, that sanctions over Russia's incursion into Ukraine have already left Russia short on dollars.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/15/russias-economy-is-doomed-its-that-simple/ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/15/russias-economy-is-doomed-its-that-simple/)
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Funny things. There is a lot of foreigners in Moscow and St. Petersburg who came for shopping. They buy things here which are now much cheaper than in Europe and America. And some things they are buying were made in their countries ha2ha
For example, you could buy a German car which were two times cheaper than the same one in Germany.
There is now a large inflow of foreign currency.
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Let me guess Mercedes?
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Right! All cars, BMW, Volkswagen...
By the way, it was a couple days ago when they stop selling because all cars where sold.
Also so happend that now Russian cars are one of the cheapest in the World, they not so good though.
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Купить все: из-за падения рубля москвичи выстроились в огромные очереди (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzl6bP-t3Mc#ws)
I don't know why I'm sure these people voted for Putin in elections. Now they cry.
Russians Buy Cars as Ruble Tumbles: Collapsing currency leads to record auto sales (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcSxO9x4kfI#ws)
Rouble’s drop drives Russian sales surge (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMy2n0OspPA#ws)
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Right! All cars, BMW, Volkswagen...
By the way, it was a couple days ago when they stop selling because all cars where sold.
Oksana will need more of these...
(http://auto.imgsmail.ru/content/documents/in_text_images/0/a/0ae75c935c86603b3a95a3dab0d7ee69.jpeg)
;D
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Next phase of crisis - I'm getting fired :(
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Next phase of crisis - I'm getting fired :(
That sucks big time.
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Next phase of crisis - I'm getting fired :(
Dmitry, so sorry to hear this. :( I have to echo Cor: That sucks.
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Aw, Dmitry, I'm sorry to hear this.
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That's terrible. Sorry to hear.
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I don't know how to treat this.
On one hand this is an opportunity to change something in my life,
on the other - it is very hard to find a good job because of crisis.
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That's no good Dmitry. Best of luck in finding a new one.
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Thanks!
If someone out of Russia had a job offer for me, I'll move ;D
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Teaching Russian somewhere?
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Wow! Nice idea! ;D
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Take a vacation in Mexico and walk across the boarder! You I would welcome!
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Dmitry, I noticed an online-only business called GoFluent.com that employs people proficient in various languages to help
train business professionals in that language so they can more efficiently and appropriately (i.e., etiquette wise) conduct
business in different countries. It's done via Skype, I think. Perhaps you could help train businesspeople in the Russian
language? Just a thought.
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David, why Mexico? Why not just arrive to the US and just stay?
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I'll be working since 20th of April.
In one of the biggest insurance companies `SOGAZ'
https://www.sogaz.ru/eng/ (https://www.sogaz.ru/eng/)
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I'll be working since 20th of April.
In one of the biggest insurance companies `SOGAZ'
[url]https://www.sogaz.ru/eng/[/url] ([url]https://www.sogaz.ru/eng/[/url])
That's great news Dmitry! I have been concerned about you and your family. I should have let you know that. Hope everyone is well.
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Thanks Kelley! Still we live with my wife's parents in Moscow. They'll move to Donetsk soon for a week, then come back again in Russia.
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Wow! A dollar costs now 71 rubles. It costs 33 rubles an year ago. So my salary now $1400 (or 1200 euro) a month :o
It seems we sink deeper and deeper.
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By the way it is a good chance for you, my dear foreign friends, to visit Moscow. It is much cheaper now. ;D
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By the way it is a good chance for you, my dear foreign friends, to visit Moscow. It is much cheaper now. ;D
I don't know. I would be happier travelling somewhere else to be honest. Everyone who is against Putin gets prisoned. It looks like a dictature now.
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I don't know. I would be happier travelling somewhere else to be honest. Everyone who is against Putin gets prisoned. It looks like a dictature now.
There is a lot of people here from all over the World. Recently I was in the center and on the Red Square. I saw them, I heard them. You know, they didn't look unhappy ;D I think they just don't care about Putin, they came here to spend a good time.
As you can feel unhappy because of Putin I myself in the same manner could feel myself unhappy because of Obama (US has most prisoners per 100 thousand inhabitants, people shoot each other, US makes war in many countries...)
So forget Putin and travel to Russia, my friend, and maybe you love it. Just throw away politics.
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Nice article, not about economics but politics http://www.thenation.com/article/no-its-not-1937-getting-our-words-about-russia-right/ (http://www.thenation.com/article/no-its-not-1937-getting-our-words-about-russia-right/)
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More: http://varlamov.ru/1573774.html (http://varlamov.ru/1573774.html)
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Today's procession in the center of Moscow against Putin and Government
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(http://socialistorganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/FebRevolution.jpg)
February 1917
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Indeed!
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On the 12th of June
https://youtu.be/BjlN4_13cZg (https://youtu.be/BjlN4_13cZg)