Russians were asked to express an opinion about the presence or absence of an economic crisis in the country. We invite you to take part in our survey.

24 May 2016 459

On the eve of the Russian non-state research company "Levada-Center" has published data from the survey, which bears the saying called "The economic crisis." In the 48 regions of the country, about 1,6 thousand people aged 18 years were surveyed on the subject of an opinion on the presence or absence of an economic crisis in Russia. Before presenting information on the subject and the results of the survey conducted by the Levada Center, it is necessary to publish the data of the state structure. It is about Rosstat, which has brought together and provided information about the economic situation in the country lately.

Russians were asked to express an opinion about the presence or absence of an economic crisis in the country. We invite you to take part in our survey.

Despite statements by some relevant government officials that the crisis is over, and that the barrel of oil at its cost even allows you to save funds to the Reserve Fund, the Rosstat figures look, frankly, far from being unequivocal about optimism. Even with a special desire ... Certainly, in the information environment it happens that the individual media can turn the minuses into advantages, and other media can do everything exactly the opposite, and therefore, in order not to become the object of statements in the style of “the author tries to embellish ”or“ the author is a person from the series of pro-polymers ”, then - exclusively dry figures and bare facts. Well, except for some short comments, which I hope in no way can distract the reader from the data published by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).

So, Rosstat publishes information on economic trends in Russia over the past 4 of the month. If you believe the presented monitoring results, then the real money incomes of the average Russian decreased for the period from January to April of the current year by 4,7%. And draws attention to a rather unexpected figure for April. This indicator - "minus" 7,1% in annual terms. For comparison: in March, according to estimates of the same Rosstat, it was “minus” 1,2%.

However, this is a real expression, which is expressed in the ability of the above-mentioned average Russian to acquire a certain set of goods for the sum of his income. If we proceed to the reports in terms of nominal, then such reports to certain categories of citizens are fit to be used at least in campaigning, especially since elections to the lower house of parliament are not far off. The denomination is as follows: not a drop, but an increase in average per capita income by 0,1% on an annualized basis (to 31,3 thousand rubles), as well as an increase in payroll wages already by 5,4% - to 36,2 thousand rubles (this is in real terms in “minus” 1,7%).

As you can see, with these figures, certain people can easily afford to “play” in such a way that the numbers will simply reflect the opposite trends. But we are here to "play" for nothing, and therefore the bare facts from Rosstat and not only further.

The number of Russians who have cash incomes below the subsistence minimum, on an annualized basis (in comparison with 2015 year) grew by no less than 19,6% and amounted to 19,2 million people.

At the same time, the growth of wage delays was recorded. Informational portal “To lead. Economy" cites the statement of the Minister of Labor of the Russian Federation Maxim Topilin:

In the first quarter, 46 received thousands of complaints from citizens about salary delays totaling about 6 billion rubles. In this regard, the State Duma may in May adopt a law to tighten the requirements for employers to pay salaries.

These are statistics from government institutions and officials, which, perhaps, resembles reports on the average temperature of hospital patients, but still gives reason to reflect on trends. You can try to ignore them or convert them to "achievements economic block ", but the facts remain facts and they do not look so comforting as we would like ...

Well, now to the announced survey conducted Levada Center in 137 locations of the Russian Federation. The organizers of the survey state that the statistical error in such a study is no more than 3,4%. Whether to trust the results of a survey conducted by experts of the Levada Center is a private matter. But even if there is no trust in the results in this case, then at least just getting acquainted will not be superfluous, and then present your point of view.

Question 1. What, in your opinion, is now the main internal threat to Russia?

At the time of the survey, 44% of Russians responded that the main internal threat in the country is economic problems, a slowdown in economic development and a growth in public debt.

Well, if one can argue with a negative about the growth of public debt (for example, in the United States or Japan, debt is growing at an astronomical pace, and so far something has not been heard about assigning pre-default ratings to the economies of these countries), everything else is close to reality. Indeed, one can say a lot about the fact that economic problems and a slowdown in growth (although in reality this is no longer a decrease in growth rates, but a real departure in the negative) do not have any influence on the situation in the country, but in reality everything is different. Many felt the drop in revenues (with the exception of incomes of all kinds of top managers and other representatives of the “golden Russian million”), and if you have a head on your shoulders it is difficult not to call the economic difficulties an internal threat to Russia. In the end, wasn’t it in order to loosen the situation in the country that anti-Russian sanctions were imposed (even if they were not the main cause of economic difficulties) by our "friends"? ..

Question 2. Do you agree or disagree with the opinion that the economic crisis in Russia is now?

Disagree - 12%, agree - 82%, the rest of the respondents could not decide on an unambiguous answer. And indeed, if we follow the official reports, how can we decide? .. On the one hand, we have (well, someone ...) income growth (if nominally), and on the other hand, their fall (if real). Here the answer fits into the logic of who and what will find in his own wallet and fridge ...

It should be added here that the maximum of answers “agree” about the presence of the economic crisis in Russia fell on March 2016 of the year - 85%. Interestingly, what has become the main factor in the fact that the percentage of those who are sure of the economic crisis in the country has decreased? Is the departure of a barrel of oil from 35 dollars and the fall of the dollar against the ruble compared to the figures for the beginning of the year? ..

Perhaps one more questionworthy of special attention given by the Levada:
How would you assess the situation with the payment of salaries, benefits in your city, district?

Result: 36% stated that the situation had worsened, 10% saw improvements, and 47% of respondents did not notice any changes in comparison with the previous period of time.

And now I would like to ask the opinion of the audience of readers. our information and analytical portal Regarding how each of those willing to vote considers whether there is an economic crisis in the country today or not? Detailed answers in the comments are welcome.

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Massik

+7

24 May 2016 19: 56

Open your eyes, dear ones, we have been in a crisis for 23 years... For as long as I have lived, I have not seen anything other than a crisis and I think that this is a normal state for a state called the Russian Federation.
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2. cyber
  
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  24 May 2016 20: 16
  
  Indeed, the same crisis has been going on for 23 years. The only thing that changes is the excuses why it won’t end.
  And most importantly, everywhere in power there are only professionals of the highest level, the enterprises are run entirely by economic geniuses... well, they are entirely smart people and smart people, but there is zero sense.
  How can this be? President... ow! Even us below already understand that it’s not a matter of the reel... well, it can’t be that professionals are working, but the result is nothing like that of amateurs. I understand that 1 mistake is acceptable, 2 mistakes... 10 mistakes, but when it’s been a continuous rake for 23 years... is there really no real economic pro among the 140 million Russians? Where is the strategy for developing the country and improving the well-being of citizens? Where point by point: we do this and in connection with this, in a year there will be an improvement in this and that? and if it doesn’t happen, then we’ll correct this, remove the bumps with this, and make the following reforms so that this and that will improve.
3. Road runer
  
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  26 May 2016 09: 40
  
  Our crisis began with the collapse of the USSR, when the Yeltsin gang, sponsored by the oligarchs, came to power. Former young secretaries of regional committees and children of Komsomol workers, uncles close to the government trough, instantly took over the mineral resources and the largest enterprises of the country. They bought up enterprises for pennies and seized land.
  Our government, led by the GDP that is so praised here, acts in the interests of oligarchic business. Do you think why Yeltsin left VVP in power when he left. Everything was decided and agreed upon; they wouldn’t just hire someone off the street for such a post.
  And for them the common people are the herd, the electorate, taxpayers, money providers in general. The people were lucky that the price of oil had been rising for 15 years; it led to the growth of the economy, small and medium-sized businesses, indexation of pensions, etc. But our government did not lift a finger to use this situation for reforms. And so everything is fine! As long as these thieves and swindlers are in power, who only think about how to sleep on more money and move it offshore, nothing will happen to people. And as the plush one said: There is no money! But you hold on...
Oleg samara

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24 May 2016 20: 36

I’m on a business trip in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and for some reason I don’t particularly feel the poverty, especially the catastrophic crisis, and the torn economy. Locals who work drive normal, fresh right-hand drive cars, because it’s unprofitable to drag a Lada here (I, living in Tolyatti (!), bought a right-hand drive Toyota at one time and I don’t regret anything - pose-pose-pose is a previous car), who more powerful - Prado (Land Cruiser Prado 2015-2016), Tuaregs, and other Ku7. Those who work long days at a construction site - well... what did you expect? But everyone has a Lada Sedan :)
vladimirvn

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24 May 2016 20: 44

I work and have a pension. My wife works and has a pension. At work we are already stretching ourselves to the limit. We don't go on sick leave. We work 10 hours every day, five days a week. And quitting your job is scary. You can't survive on retirement.
1. DimerVladimer
  
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  25 May 2016 11: 11
  
  Quote: vladimirvn
  We work 10 hours every day, five days a week. And quitting your job is scary. Can't survive on retirement
  
  Unfortunately, this is an indicator of the state’s attitude towards its citizens.
  German pensioners - long-awaited at every European resort - have the opportunity to relax for a month a year at a resort or 2-3 months in Turkey (cheaper there compared to Europe)
konvalval

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24 May 2016 21: 27

I think that talk about a crisis is a very good cover for a mediocre economic policy pursued by the most “smart” part of our heroic people. As soon as there is a crisis, extortions from pensioners begin. But they couldn’t with this very “smart” part. They are great statesmen and there are so few of them that there is no gain from them.
1. Nforce
  
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  25 May 2016 19: 05
  
  Who else should I take it from? Not from your own pockets.
Undermined ustoev

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24 May 2016 22: 01

Question 1. What, in your opinion, now represents the main internal threat to Russia?
The roots of the threat are in the current socio-economic formation, where the right of private ownership of the means of production has been elevated to law and, as a direct consequence of this, the main economic goal is profit. Where the goal of the economy is profit, there can be no progress in social relations, but there will only be stratification of society, its atomization and subsequent social hatred, that is, social chauvinism. In such a situation, it does not matter how exactly social contradictions will be fueled from the outside or from the inside. The system itself contributes to this. Next will be a dumping of national outskirts under the slogans: our %nationality-name% bourgeoisie are cooler than yours, “stop feeding Moscow”, etc... And such an outcome is inevitable, no matter how the vertical is strengthened. They'll turn around anyway. Strictly according to Lenin. But it is not customary to refer to the brilliant proletarian ideologist and study his works. It is customary to brand him, throw shit at him, and in some places burn his books and knock down his monuments. Well, what can we do with the bourgeoisie and their hangers-on? They quite rightly hate Ilyich, their class enemy, and try to appropriate the victories and achievements achieved by society, the foundations of which were laid by him and completed by his followers. They themselves can’t do anything other than line their own pockets, no matter how hard they try.
The only thing that will help maintain the current capitalist Russia is aggressive imperialism, but this requires a strong economy and an appropriate social basis. Where can we get a normal economy with its focus on raw materials, when the standard of living fluctuates and directly depends on the dollar? No where. Where can we find a social basis for imperialism if the overwhelming majority of the population is pro-Soviet? No where. But, as Comrade Stalin said, I have no other people for you. Russian capitalism, restored 25 years ago, as a reactionary formation of socio-economic relations, with the tenacity of an idiot, is digging its own grave.

Question 2. Do you agree or disagree with the opinion that there is an economic crisis in Russia?
There is a crisis. Undoubtedly. This fur-bearing animal has nestled firmly in the wallets of those whose income has actually fallen and whose consumer basket has decreased. According to the completely objective laws of development of capitalist society, the crisis is felt by those people who sell their labor power. It also includes small owners working for the market, the so-called self-employed and other pensioners. But the rest are clearly not experiencing a crisis. It will be enough to look at the statistics on the withdrawal of money to offshore companies in dollars. The output has not decreased, quite the contrary.

Well, after the “crisis” is over, it will be interesting to look at the “suddenly” increase in the number of Russian dollar billionaires.
They've already come for me, right?
years

+1

24 May 2016 23: 52

What did YOU actually want!? All our power, including Putin and Medvedev....from the 90s. THAT is, "New Russians"... Do you remember these other ones =)...?
varov14

-1

25 May 2016 05: 14

It’s time for the system to go into a ditch, it’s better to do it ourselves, but it can also be done with the help of the Americans. By the way, they seem to need socialism as a counter-system, I agree to a scapegoat, only without the fundamental and determining role of any party. The party is always a chimera, ready to live for free. Self-government, councils, democracy, economics.p Poly
Indifferent

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25 May 2016 05: 34

There is definitely a crisis in our country. I judge by myself! Why go far?
Military pensions are paid only 60% and must be indexed in accordance with inflation and gradually increased to 100% by law. Neither one nor the other is being done!
I went to the clinic. The queue to see a doctor is three weeks in advance. You need to register at 8 am. The recording lasts 5 minutes. That's all. Come tomorrow. The smart ones occupy this line from 5 am. I went to the military clinic. There the doctor needs an x-ray, but it doesn’t work. A 100-year-old X-ray tube has lost its emissions. Either there is no money to buy a new one, or it is so old that it has not been produced for about 30 years. Everyone suggests going to a paid clinic. It's fast and only 5000 is needed for each analysis.
My granddaughter is studying and preparing to enter university. Looks like she's ready. But no matter what you ask, he knows nothing. Doesn't know basic things. What is a quadratic trinomial or what is a discriminant? When you ask what more than 0.5 or 1/2 thinks for a long time... This is what I see every day. Prices on the market are rising, especially for everything imported. I wanted to buy my wife a small TV for the kitchen, but now they sell for the price of large ones!
I gave the most basic examples, the most common pensioners. But when the son comes and begins to list what has closed in our city, what will never work again, and how many of his friends are just barely staying afloat and are just waiting to close or still keep their small production, then the hair on his head stands out. Where are we going with this government?
And housing and communal services are growing, they added a tax on major repairs, which I will never see, but I am obliged to pay. Now they will add a real estate tax at cadastral (read ceiling) prices, which are much higher than market prices, and housing insurance against fires and floods is next in line. And then you look at the porch and it’s time to ask for some bread!
1. Bramb
  
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  25 May 2016 13: 55
  
  You got something wrong with the prices, my friend.
  Even in Moscow, paid X-rays don’t cost more than 2000. MRI 8 pieces. Analyzes even in Invitro from 1000. Where is it 5000 for each analysis?
  Small 24" TVs cost from 9 thousand - is this really the price of a big one?
  
  “Oh, don’t lie! You’re lying to the Tsar!!!” (c)
2. cyber
  
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  26 May 2016 05: 09
  
  Indifferent, Uffff! They scared me... my 5th grader son asked: “Which is greater than 0.5 or 1/2” - he answered without hesitation “the same.” Apparently he’s already ready for university.
  
  And so, in general, you describe everything correctly, but I must also add that the quality of training for doctors is also worse than ever. God forbid you get sick and end up with these farriers.
Snow

+1

25 May 2016 07: 42

Personally, I received 40 before April, and now 20 - the crisis has taken its toll. Salary drop by 50%. I work as a design engineer. Where does ROSSTAT get such good statistics?

I agree with Delyagin, Glazyev and Katasonov that our authorities do not seem to be solving anything, and the situation in the country will soon outgrow revolutionary. People are afraid of revolution, people don't want it. But you have to. If there is no change in the economic course until 17
1. Bramb
  
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  25 May 2016 13: 56
  
  And we hired a young designer with no 50 experience.
  What field do you work in, at what company, if it’s not a secret?
Mihail55

0

25 May 2016 07: 43

Quote: voffchik7691
Dear Mikhail, during this “stagnation” so much was created that they still cannot completely steal it! We haven’t been doing anything for 25 years, but we are leaving the “stagnant” groundwork!

Dear Vladimir, I cited these terms as generally accepted today But looking, as they say, through the thickness of the years... now there would be such stagnation
asp373

-1

25 May 2016 08: 35

Crisis, ha! Yes, Russians simply have a short memory and have forgotten what a real crisis is. Read the news from 404 - there is a crisis there. http://yurasumy.livejournal.com/1041748.html
1. Victor Demchenko
  
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  26 May 2016 08: 34
  
  and why do I need country 404? I live in Russia, and that’s what interests me! and what’s going on there... may Allah tear them apart, these are their problems, you and your “brotherly” people are fed up!
dr. sem

0

25 May 2016 10: 21

Quote: Mahmut
GDP has become even lower.

It is already growing into the ground like a drill...
Bramb

0

25 May 2016 13: 49

Gentlemen, what exactly is the crisis?
It’s clear with the country’s economy: they sat on the pipe while oil and gas prices were high, did nothing, consumed half of it - the price fell, and that’s the crisis. In fact, this is not a crisis, but simply inept economic management, which many people talked about 10, 15 and 25 years ago.
But in particular? Are there any turners here? Milling workers? Engineers? What is your crisis? No work?

A neighbor froze his personal belongings while fishing, now it’s not worth it - this is a crisis! What is it expressed in yours? Are your hands frozen or the engineer's head? Very interesting.
would

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25 May 2016 15: 46

Question 1. What, in your opinion, now represents the main internal threat to Russia?

The incompetent (this is at best, and I don’t believe in it) economic policy of the authorities, which in the dark years was aimed at enriching Western countries by selling irreplaceable and cheap raw materials, and after purchasing final production facilities for completely different money from their own raw materials. This is to keep it short and straight forward. Ever since the times of the USSR, they warned that prices for raw materials were speculative and especially for oil, they warned that the price could fall sharply when oil was at $100, they warned that this was a soap bubble inflated by OPEC price collusion and it would burst... they realized it (and only in the picture , not in reality) only when the bubble burst. They came to their senses and decided to start extracting even more taxes from the common people, trying to plug the holes that had formed in the budget. There can be no talk of a progressive scale of taxation; this is a liberal-capitalist invention alien to our spirituality and can only be torn from the people!

Question 2. Do you agree or disagree with the opinion that there is an economic crisis in Russia?

Absolutely. And here it is worth noting that in reality this crisis is very old and was previously masked by inflated oil prices and the corresponding flow of petrodollars into the economy. Of course, this crisis is felt by ordinary people, from whom they begin to tear more and more.

How would you assess the situation with the payment of salaries, benefits in your city, district?

Naturally, I rate it poorly. The purchasing power of the ruble has dropped very sharply, those payments made from the budget are not indexed in accordance with the much-loved general inflation (I’m already silent about inflation specifically in the consumer goods sector), financial flows have become poorer and work has become significantly worse, etc. and so on.

And the authorities frankly do not want to reverse this crisis. Time after time we hear exclamations that just a little more and the price of oil will rise and then we will live! Everyone is preparing to produce nothing again, we will again sell cheap raw materials to the West, and again we will buy expensive goods made from these raw materials from the West. And so on until a new fall in oil prices.
LeftPers

+2

25 May 2016 18: 14

After the president said on a direct line in 2015 that the retirement age should not be raised, Medvedev later said the same thing. And now they have dug up this ....-kudrin again and no one is hiding that the age will be raised, I no longer trust anyone.
rc56

+1

25 May 2016 18: 16

Before our prime minister’s phrase yesterday, I would have rather chosen the second option.
Well, today is, of course, the first!!!
Undermined ustoev

+1

25 May 2016 20: 04

Quote: LeftPers
After the president said on a direct line in 2015 that the retirement age should not be raised, Medvedev later said the same thing. And now they have dug up this ....-kudrin again and no one is hiding that the age will be raised, I no longer trust anyone.

Ivanov passes to Petrov, Petrov enters the penalty area, elegantly throws the ball onto Sidorov’s backside with his heel, and Sidorov, with his trademark “Borka Moiseev” kick, drives the ball into the net. And you are right in not believing. This is commendable; doubt is the first step towards learning and understanding. If they yell “to the barricades!!!!1111razrazraz,” then you should sit down and think about one simple thing. Not against anyone bad, but what's good for go to these barricades, and СЃ РєРµРј. So far, there is objectively nothing for the working people to go to the barricades for, and there is no one with whom. All modern barricades, if they happen, will automatically follow the path of the Ukrainian Maidan. And that's why. The working class is now just forming its consciousness. The strike struggle is still growing. There is no sensible idea, and it has not captured the masses. The working people also do not have a vanguard (the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, as a bourgeoisized party, this terry stronghold of revisionists, Trotskyists and traitors, please do not offer it). Accordingly, there is no one yet to say, “There is such a party!” And if there is no such party, then the anger of the workers will be directed to serve the interests of anyone, but not the workers themselves.
1. Victor Demchenko
  
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  26 May 2016 08: 39
  
  with all my heart a plus! and here it is:
  Quote: Undermining the Foundations
  The working class is now just forming its consciousness. The strike struggle is still growing. There is no sensible idea, and it has not captured the masses. The working people also do not have a vanguard (the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, as a bourgeoisized party, this terry stronghold of revisionists, Trotskyists and traitors, please do not offer it).
  
  not in the eyebrow, but in the eye! Now the workers don’t have ANY courage, let alone any desire to change anything, so that someone can do it for them...
Mikhalychch

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26 May 2016 03: 39

And elections are coming soon, today’s Duma is not capable of solving the pressing problems of the people, it’s up to you to decide whether it’s worth choosing a similar one with the same composition.
Ilya77

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26 May 2016 07: 55

A wish from Medevedeva
149GB

0

26 May 2016 08: 58

YES, of course it’s not a crisis! Our salaries are not being cut or delayed! They just don’t add 10 percent bonus every month! And so all is well!
Vladimir K

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26 May 2016 09: 27

We have capitalism with elements of feudalism. And we had socialism with elements of feudalism. Just as socialism was imposed by force, capitalism did not come by evolutionary means. They all came from Tsarist Russia, so the people are not ready for widespread entrepreneurship—the mentality is not the same. Yes, there are also corrupt officials, dependence on the American financial system, liberal ideology (damn it), the lack of professionals in the cabinet, and, ultimately, the lack of political will for serious changes in the economic course. I hope time will put everything in its place.
waiting in

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26 May 2016 13: 03

I had an individual entrepreneur and a small production facility. The crisis killed me completely.
tor978

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26 May 2016 13: 41

Just as they stole in Rus', so they will steal. But to create conditions for there to be less theft (large salaries, pensions, benefits), the government does not have the courage to do this. Why is it that some deputy who doesn’t do anything, and isn’t going to do anything to be honest, gets half a million a month, while he has mandatory paid vacations (damn it), company cars, benefits, and pensioners, for example, receive a pension of about 9000 rubles (my father receives this in the Chelyabinsk region), naturally he found a part-time job as a janitor for 7000, and our government deprived everyone of the same brush of indexing the pensions of working pensioners. Yes, so that the entire government can live on 9000 rubles a month!!! Or we are raising the average salary: raising it for the entire plant staff by 1-1,5%; Accordingly, the worker increases his salary by 100-300 rubles maximum, but the bosses increase their salary by at least a couple of thousand, and this is at a state defense enterprise. Accordingly, few people want to work for a net salary of about 15-20 thousand. Thanks to this, the overall average salary increases.

Russians were asked to express an opinion about the presence or absence of an economic crisis in the country. We invite you to take part in our survey.

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