[jb6]

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.

[monday]

"everyone owns their apartments"

If everyone owns their own apartments, why are three generations living in the same one?