Four days ago Newsweek said it was $7. Both are ‘telegram posts from independent Russian news source.’
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4132002/posts
Is it $7? Food? Food and $7? Or is Newsweek just grasping at straws?
You know it’s always a confidence builder when our MSM reports one or more of: ‘experts,’ ‘sources,’ or sketchy online blurbs. Their track record on truth continues to sink.
Alex Jones is “Infowars” but this — both from the Uke and Rus engines — is the opposite. It’s all DisInfowars and, for my part, I trust neither, nor the people who make a ‘hobby’ of repeating and promoting these stories.
Employees at a government building in Moscow said 70 per cent of them had been forced to attend the rally, according to internal correspondence seen by The Moscow Times.
‘To be honest, I think it’s absurd. We have to go and there’s nothing we can do with it.
‘The authorities are using it as a propaganda tool to show off in the eyes of Z-patriots and those who watch TV. I wouldn’t go to the event voluntarily,’ a state employee told the newspaper.
Russians were also promised 500 roubles (£5.54) each if they attended Putin’s speech, according to flyers published on Telegram.
One flyer told students they would be given university credits and ‘free food and gifts’ if they attended, while another said they wouldn’t have to attend lessons for the whole day.
For those who did attend, they complained about how ‘bad’ the organisation process behind the event was.
‘I think that the organization is bad, they gave us a couple of buses, but there were a lot of people and we had to stay inside those buses. I had to get up at 5 a.m. to get to the stadium,’ a woman in her 50s from the Moscow region told The Moscow Times.
‘They mobilised 300,000 people, and they say 200,000 should be here, can you imagine?’ she added, while holding a banner with a photo of Putin on it.
‘I didn’t really want to go to the concert, but at least I’ll visit the stadium, I’ve never been there,’ a man in his 50s said.