Posted on 05/23/2022 2:37:46 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
A trip to the mall in Russia is a different experience today than it was just a few short months ago.
“When I had my first child, there was all this choice. Mothercare, Zara, you name it,” said Evgenia Marsheva, a 33-year-old architect. But when she went shopping in Moscow this month for her newborn, many of those large retail brands had been shuttered.
“Now, I can only find very cheap or extremely expensive Russian products. I was brought up with tales of the limited choices that my parents had during the Soviet Union. I never thought that would come back.”
Three months into the war, Russia has become the most sanctioned country in the world, and almost 1,000 foreign brands – the majority of them voluntarily – have curtailed their operations there, according to records kept by the Yale School of Management. The exodus of companies continued this week with McDonald’s officially announcing it would leave Russia after three decades.
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for many in Moscow and other Russian cities, the country’s growing political and economic isolation is having a direct impact on their livelihoods.
“Since the conflict started, every step in the production line is a struggle,” said Vladimir Kukushkin, a director of a printing company in Ekaterinburg, Russia’s fourth-largest city.
Kukushkin complained that after Adobe announced that its software would not be available in Russia, he had to find new ways to design his products, while the rising prices of ink and paper have placed further strain on his business.
“It has also been hard to promote my business because Instagram and Facebook are blocked. These might look like little things but they really add up,” he said.
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And never forget the American traitors who sold nukes to Putin's Russia.
On June 19, 1953, Julius died after the first electric shock. Ethel’s execution did not go smoothly. After she was given the normal course of three electric shocks, attendants removed the strapping and other equipment only to have doctors determine that Ethel’s heart was still beating. Two more electric shocks were applied, and at the conclusion eyewitnesses reported that smoke rose from her head.
In before the Putinista apologists for the Rosenbergs.
heh, just wait till they want to go on vacation, OUTSIDE RUSSIA!!!
pretty sure they’re PNG all over the world about now
maybe in five or ten years...
Wait until their “cosmopolitan” Moscow and St Petersburg offspring are sent to the front.
Putin waxes nostalgic for the days of the old Soviet Union, and it looks like Russia is on the way there: empty shelves, black markets, deprivation and poor quality goods, political prisoners, nonstop propaganda, and nuclear threats.
Congrats, Vladimir. You f*cked up your country, but good.
Sort of like here in America...
empty shelves, black markets, deprivation and poor quality goods, political prisoners, nonstop propaganda, and nuclear threats.
If you can’t have preeminence, demand parity.
More Sorosbot globalist horsecrap from the n00b troll.
Surely no one is comparing any city to fecal centers such as Chicago, New York City or San Francisco.
Once a Chekist, always a Chekist.
I hear Odessa is nice in the Summer.
As their currency soars compared to other nations’.
OH Yeah...
right? take a walk on the wild side...
1.7 cents now versus 2.8 cents when Pedo Putin invaded Crimea? That’s not soaring.
Ain’t bad at all for being a “pariah.”
But the ruble is up.
Ha ha ha.
In a closed economy, having a soaring currency means nothing.
Open your stock market for a day so foreigners can sell.
Let’s see how well the mighty ruble does on that day.
Wars have consequences
I don't allow that RAM-sucking garbage from Adobe on my machines...
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