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What is the 2018 World Cup good for? It's good for decreeing draconian restrictions of freedom of assembly while railing a deeply unpopular increase of the retirement age through parliament.

Alex Gaskarov Facebook June 4, 2018

It is quite likely a draft law on raising the pension age will be tabled in the State Duma in the very near future. The authorities probably want to take advantage of the restrictions on large-scale rallies during the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Raising the retirement age is not entirely an economic issue. The Pension Fund has been running a huge deficit because 40% of…

Nearly 40 Percent of Russians Subsist on Less than 10 US Dollars a Day, Official Figures Show ………. #RUSSIA #POVERTY

(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, February 10, 2019)

Thirty-seven percent of Russians life on 19,000 rubles or less a month, Rosstat says, a figure that works out to a subsistence of ten US dollars or a less a day, 23.2 percent live on less than 15,000 rubles a month (under seven dollars a day); and 12 percent have incomes under 10,000 rubles a month (five dollars a day).

Only 11…

Those Fishy-Looking Russian Economic Stats Look A Lot Like Those Fishy-Looking Soviet Economic Stats

(Article text ©2019 RFE/RL, Inc., Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – rferl.org – Mike Eckel – February 11, 2019 – article text also appeared at rferl.org/a/those-fishy-looking-russian-economic-stats-look-a-lot-like-those-fishy-looking-soviet-economic-stats/29764301.html)

When Russia’s state statistics agency released its initial estimates of 2018 economic growth on February 4, it caught…

Rosstat Can’t be Trusted Until It Becomes Independent, ‘Nezavisimaya gazeta’ Says

(Paul Goble – Window on Eurasia – Staunton, February 8, 2019)

People have long distrusted statistics – Mark Twain’s observation that “there are lies, damned lies, and then statistics’ is a commonplace – but over the last two years and especially over the last two weeks, Russians have come no longer to believe them at all if they are issued by the state’s statistical arm, Rosstat, Nezavisimaya…

RUSSIALINK: “Official Data Vastly Underestimates Russian Emigration – Report” – Moscow Times

(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – January 16, 2019)

At least six times more Russians are leaving the country than officially estimated, a comprehensive study conducted by the Proekt news outlet said on Wednesday.

Proekt’s report highlights discrepancies between official data from the Rosstat federal statistics agency and data compiled by countries where Russians emigrate to. Rosstat estimates…