Official Poll Shows Russians Too Poor to Afford Shoes, Puzzling Kremlin

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Official Poll Shows Russians Too Poor to Afford Shoes, Puzzling Kremlin
The Moscow Times

An official survey on the extent of economic hardship that Russians currently face — including their inability to afford new shoes — has left the Kremlin scratching its head.

An extensive State Statistics Service, or Rosstat, survey said that four-fifths of Russian families had a hard time making ends meet — and one-third of households could not afford to buy a second pair of shoes.

“Why shoes? Why one-third? Where are these figures from?” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov asked reporters on a conference call, BBC reported on Wednesday.

Read more at: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/04/04/official-poll-shows-russians-too-poor-to-afford-shoes-puzzling-kremlin-a65083