Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev yesterday faced angry retirees in Crimea, demanding the government index their pensions to inflation. On the news clip embedded in this article, a woman complains to the Prime Minister to about her tough life in the annexed territory:
It is impossible to live in Crimea for this money, prices are insane, our pensions are being incorrectly indexed, we are being insulted [by the authorities], they cannot even index it by 4 percent. What is 8,000 rubles a month ($120)?! You are using us as doormats! We worked for 45 years of our lives!Medvedev, who is the …read more
Source: The American Interest
