Thread: "Russophobia" and "Russophilia" :)

Originally Posted by Hanna

Then the person finds that he/she has to live on a pittance of a pension that reduces them to tragic poverty for the rest of their lives.

My gf's grandmother is 85, her pension is about 32 000 roubles (which is about 950 dollars) for that money she can afford much more that she could with her soviet pension.