Russia: wage arrears growing, cucumber prices jump 43% in a month


Steve Rosenberg

STEVE’S READING RUSSIA – RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW (09.02.26)

From today’s Russian papers: cucumber prices in Russia jump 42.85% in a month, number of loss-making companies rising, wage arrears growing, “…gap between pensions & wages increasing.”

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  1. In a vid posted yesterday by SR, he quotes a reporter asking putler in Rome in 2002 whether he was concerned about Ukraine joining Nato? The reply was :

    “Ukraine is a sovereign country, free to make its own decisions about its own security.”

    In a new interview conducted by SR with Lord Robertson, Robertson confirmed that during his time as Nato boss, the rat nazi never once raised the issue of “Nato expansion.”

    Relevant part of the vid starts around the 6.27 mark :

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