One Russian paper today: “It’s a paradox: official statistics say incomes keep rising. But people don’t have enough money to pay housing & utility bills, go to the dentist, buy medicine.” Another paper: “Preparations for a [Trump-Putin] telephone call have oddly dragged out.”
The Kremlin claim inflation is 9%, yet all goods have risen by over 20% in a year.
We’ve said before that the ruskies are bad at math … among other things.