Hello there!
I'm reading an article (
http://www.novayagazeta.ru/data/2008/71/15.html) on the economic crisis in Russia and I can't decide whether it is really subtle or really strange
but there's something I don't understand and I hope you can give me your opinion (It's not a problem of understanding the language, but the meaning behind it, so I put the topic here, I hope it's okay...)
First, the journalist speaks about the "hedonistic relation to life" the Russians are supposed to have had these last years, about a boom in consumption, but I thought that, except for a few privileged people, Russians's standard of living was quite low...