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  • Russian economy on red alert as shoppers vent fury at 'nightmare' price hikes

    01/08/2025 7:20:30 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 24 replies
    Express UK ^ | 1/8/2025 | CIARAN MCGRATH
    Furious Russians have been shown bitterly complaining about the soaring cost of groceries in a revealing clip which underlines the parlous state of the nation’s economy almost three years in Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine. And the clip, uploaded to X by a Russian blogger and shared by among others former Ukrainian Interior Ministerial adviser Anton Geraschenko, demonstrated that ordinary Russians are feeling the pinch. In it, the narrator says: “Oh my God! Shaving foam costs 570 rubles [£4.39] already. What a horror. A couple of months ago I bought it for only 250 rubles [£1.77].” He then asks one...