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Posted on 12/23/2024 11:12:17 AM PST by marcusmaximus
As Russians prepare to celebrate the New Year or the week of public holidays that follows, they might notice this year's festive bill at the supermarket come out to significantly more than last year's – especially for fans of sandwiches with butter and red caviar, a New Year's dinner staple in the country.
In October of last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin denied that Russia was “spending too much money on guns and forgetting about butter,” prices of which have seen some of the biggest increases of all produce, growing by over 33 percent since the start of 2024.
Caviar, while far from being a staple food at almost 6,000 rubles (about $60) per kilo in December 2023, has shot up by over 50 percent this year to nearly 9,000 rubles per kilo. Potato prices, the basis of some of Russians' favorite New Year's dishes, like olivier salad and dressed herring, have increased the most – a kilo costs nearly twice as much as it did a year ago. Average prices for other basic goods, such as apples, herring, milk, oranges, and olive oil, have all increased by at least 15 percent in 2024, while olive oil, beetroot, and cabbage are up around 30 percent and red onions cost over 40 percent more than a year ago, according to official data.
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The price hikes have led the government to enter talks with retailers on implementing price reductions ahead of the New Year holidays, while Russian media have reported that cases of butter theft from stores have increased -- with police offering one woman allegedly caught stealing 29 blocks to avoid prosecution by volunteering for military service, a practice Putin legalized earlier this year as Russia seeks to recruit more people for the war in Ukraine.
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There’s been runaway food prices in America, too. I can name several products that are three times the price they were, two or three years ago.
I wonder what prices are doing in the Ukraine?
Russia need only give up on it’s goal to reassemble the old soviet union and this pain can end.
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The American farmer/rancher can help these folks out a bit.
Let me try. America need only give up on its goal to reassemble the old British Empire and this pain can end.
What a spurious, unintelligent argument you make.
Not a problem as long as you only buy cabbage and onions.
It makes me not want to eat out again.
Here’s why it writes about irrelevant things these days.
From: DeepStateMap
Square kilometers taken by Russia this year:
Jan: 40
Feb: 118
Mar: 39
Apr: 131
May: 313
Jun: 108
Jul: 181
Aug: 363
Sep: 409
Oct: 490
Nov: 597
Russia's invasion of Ukraine was not the unprovoked attack the war entrepreneurs say it was.
All NATO had to do to avoid the Russia conflict was not break its promise to refrain from expanding NATO.
It started in 1990 when James Baker promised Gorbachev that NATO would not expand one inch further eastward if Russia agreed to the reunification of Germany, thereby officially ending WW II.
Gorbachev agreed, but within four years we began expanding NATO eastward anyway.
The Russian invasion occurred when NATO began teasing NATO membership for Ukraine, whose name literally means "borderland" because it is on the border with Russia and has been the origin of multiple invasions of Russia in the past.
It will be a great day when Putin runs out of money to keep paying you Russian trolls
You mut be kidding
Or you’re russian
Eggs were $5 this week. Thankfully, butter was on sale at Aldi.
Russia is poor and their pensioners get $150 a month.
It’s is the Ukrainians spending American taxpayer money to pays the Zeepers.
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