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To: jb6
"Thus the average family is earning 280 dollars per month and lives normally off of that."

lol.... sure, as long as normally means lots of potatoes and cabbage, and a cramped soviet era apartment where three generations live in two rooms.
27 posted on 02/08/2005 9:37:52 AM PST by monday
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To: monday
The apartments vary from place to place, but I can tell you this, you can take that cramped apartment in Moscow (everyone owns their apartments) and sell it to a Western corp for their employees for around $80-200K cash.

As for food, the diet there is more varied but the point is: no one starves and to buy a cottage (ducha) in the country side costs around $5K.

As for those apartments, many of those buildings are being torn down and larger, modern ones put up. The tenants of the old ones get a new modern apartment and the company gets a set of new open apartments to sell too.

28 posted on 02/08/2005 9:43:27 AM PST by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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