The economic crisis in Russia deepens with every day: the ruble is falling, products and services is becoming more expensive, real estate is cheaper, and a population that was rapidly becoming impoverished. "But the blame, it appears that Ukraine — redobandire and sympathisers Yankees"
This is a Russian journalist and photographer Sergei Loiko writes in his column for ForumDaily.
Moscow is some other. Sad kind of, in a word. During the day, the people fall, break hands-feet on the icy tile laid throughout the city last fall, when Putin's minion, the Moscow mayor, realised the ship is sinking, and began to master the budget (as long as Turkish workers have not been suddenly expelled from the country), laying out the entire city tile and lining the avenues and boulevards rolls of yellowed lawn for the winter.
At night, the bulldozers break throughout the city of tents and pavilions, so it was convenient to buy cigarettes, beer, bread, the phone will pay. All this without a trial. Only the authoritative verdict. Tens of thousands of people suddenly left without work, thousands of small businesses ceased to exist.
Photo: Vladyslav Musiyenko
At the entrance to his house face-to-face meeting with a neighbor. Surprise. I was sure that she already left for permanent residence in America, where it has long been going. Wow, life plans have changed.
A neighbor is wonderful four rooms apartment in our Euro-renovated house in the heart of Moscow. Suddenly, in the coming era “Crimea is ours” she planned to sell her for $600 000, can afford to buy a house in Texas for $100,000, and the remaining half lemon to live - not to grieve.
But there it was. Running a little behind. Now her flat in dollar terms, worth $200 000, and ... for a whole month no customer.
She wanted to the country to go live, and to rent their apartment. Again a hitch. Previously, such an apartment could one day pass for $3 000 — $4 000 and again to live - not to grieve. Now don't pass in a thousand.
“The market is dead, not demand”, — says the Manager of a network of private hotels Paul. “Foreign investors and businessmen are leaving Russia EN masse. All covered with a copper basin. We profit decreased from last year by 48% and continues to fall. Need something new to come up with”.
Paul, in anticipation of the worst times last year moved from a luxury SUV in economical damage. Moved from cottage settlement in the CHT (garden Association). Every penny counts.
In one of the upscale Moscow supermarkets, the fresh seafood smells like the burial of a dead fish. Nothing to do — the substitution. In response to Western sanctions against corrupt officials, the initiators and participants of the capture of the Crimea and war in Donbass, the Russian government announced sanctions against his own people refused to buy Western food.
The result is obvious: the disappeared food was instantly replaced by olives, passion fruit and oysters from friendly Belarus. Only raised rates once in two.
The prices raised on all by leaps and bounds.
Before that drove from Kiev to Moscow? That's right — fat, vodka and Kiev cake. And now? Now — a suitcase full of French cheese and Spanish jamon.
People are moving to less expensive and less quality food. And, it appears, have imported such medication as CREON. And the ego was no longer in the pharmacy. But there is a strange, out of nowhere appeared the Russian equivalent to pronounce, for the same $10 per pack. Like ego doing what is unknown.
But the author of these lines, for example, it is well known, how to make Russian cheese. While working in an American newspaper, I wrote more than a thousand articles in science and life, about ballet, about the war. But the reader won't believe which of my articles were the most popular over the last dozen years. Statystycznych hits and millions of reposts and reprints received my short article about how in the city of Tomsk were doing cheese. Work local cheese factory during the daily Siesta bathed in tubs of milk, the main raw material for cheese making.
In Egypt, not in Turkey. In the rest of the country “tours” cost a fantastic sum. Travel companies massively go out of business.
I ran out of pages in the passport. Came to a spacious Palace, a new mixed-use centre to arrange for a new passport. No queue. Generally a single person. A couple of years ago — by appointment only. And now, as they say, goodbye America, no more passports are not needed. Where to go? Soon they say the war with Turkey, need to stock up on everything you need and to know where the nearest bomb shelter.
How Eskimos in the blood is not processed alcohol, so the Russians in the brain is processed Ukraine. Just start talking to very intelligent, and even quite intelligent conversation with a Russian, and start talking about Ukraine, the feeling that behind him quietly crept some matrix Putin and put in the back of zombocom.
It turns out that all the fault of Ukraine — redobandire and sympathisers Pindos. They do not give the Russians live, the prices and tariffs for all up, work out, overlaid as wolves, airplanes — “defenseless” bombers were shot down, the war-threatened Peninsula “Crimea is ours”, from which this whole shebang began, back require...
And the fridge already in the minds of some from the Russians begins to overcome the TV. One currency teamsize recently during anti-Kremlin demonstrations publicly cried out that the Crimea should be restored immediately.
And it will return. Oh, they will. Now war the Turks will lose and will return. How cute...
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Sergei Loyko — the Russian journalist and photographer, for many years worked for the newspaper The Los Angeles Times. In 2015 work on the war in the East of Ukraine was awarded one of the highest awards in American journalism Overseas Press Club Bob Considine award “for courage, authenticity, originality, depth and expressiveness described”. In the same year, Sergey won the prestigious Los Angeles Times editorial award for “best stories of 2014”.
МБФ "СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ" / ICF "GLORY TO UKRAINE" / FIB "GLOIRE À L'UKRAINE"
