Are you feeling the crisis?

[peacetraveler22]

We see the word "crisis" constantly thrown around in text and news articles, but I want to know the reality of the situation for the average person living in Russia. I understand almost nothing about the financial markets, and my investments are all handled by stockbrokers with expertise in the area. Yet I go to the gas station each week and see the gas prices continually drop, which is great for me given that I commute a very long distance to work now. Travel is also less costly with the strength of the dollar, whereas many Russian friends no longer can afford to go abroad due to the continual decrease in the ruble. So, are all of these stories on LJ simply written by alarmists and pessimists, or do you feel there's a real crisis now in Russia as a result of sanctions and economics, which dramatically impacts your life? If so, in what way? Do you have hope for improvement in 2016?

Comments

[a-nimaida.livejournal.com]

I never predicted the collapse of the dollar
on the contrary, I think that a strong dollar is a strong guarantee of the US industry.
 
Shannon, you're a lawyer, you're at work accuse an innocent man?
I wrote about the other. The fact that the dollar has risen in price relative to all
Therefore it is not profitable right now to buy American goods.

I've never laughed at the US president.
I do not understand why this photo in the subject.

[kichiro-sora.livejournal.com]

Какие европейские санкции вообще могли повлиять на экономическую ситуачию в России? Запрет на вьезд Кабзона?

[kichiro-sora.livejournal.com]

Где то вас дурят. У нас в Мичигане 1.80 за регулар...

[xuswan.livejournal.com]

Yes, I feel it very much. When crisis had begun I was fired. I try to find a work with the same salary, and now it is harder than year ago. Prices of all products rised. Especially food, clothes, travelling. And in this year it will increasing again and again. The future looks like very pessimistically.

[iiiko.livejournal.com]

The Russian crisis ever. Our president is the head of the dumbest in the world. He is a criminal, an international terrorist, a thief and a bandit. Only he is to blame for the Russian crisis.
Prices for food and gasoline are rising. Unemployment. Rampant crime. Kadyrov - a terrorist №1, very ohuel.
Every day is getting worse and worse. I live in Moscow and see everything.
It's very sad.

[g-kar.livejournal.com]

I envy the people who watch this :)

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

Haha, what a lecture above!

Ok, let's raise the bar one level up.

When you cannot say pizdets you can use an euphemism "pesets" which is actually an animal, an arctic fox.

ru. wikipedia. org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%86

Also "polniy", "full" is also a polite word for "fat".

So when you say "polniy pesets" it can mean "fat arctic fox" or "total pizdets".

So don't be surprized when you see this image in a blog (as I did recently).
mdrevers. ru/silver7/img/31.jpg

:))

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

"Невские сыры" make decent cheese, even parmesan which our liberals cry about.

[romanklimenko.livejournal.com]

Так сами себя дурим.
Требуем особую смесь и запрещаем покупать в других штатах. Кое кто на этом хорошо зарабатывает

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

:)

[mikhail panasovsky (from livejournal.com)]

The one who's living in Finland and reading/wrighting in Russian.

[merinainen.livejournal.com]

In the profile can be written whatever one wants.

[seadevil001.livejournal.com]

I feeling the crisis - family lost 200 000 since New Year.

[oblomius.livejournal.com]

Donetsk?

[vasha-masha.livejournal.com]

Мистрали, газовые потоки и еще куча совместных проектов. Санкции не ограничиваются запретом въезда списку лиц, свернуто сотрудничество по многим направлениям.

[whiteeye.livejournal.com]

Hi Shannon!
I am quite lucky living in Moscow, so my family has not bad salary and can afford a lot of things. How I feel the crisis: there is less good quality food (esp cheese, which is very expensive in roubles and usually very disgisting) - and we spend 50-70% more on grocery now than 2 years ago before Crimea and dollar rise. Gas is not going down despite oil price gets less. Home appliences cost almost 2 times more expensive - so if I want to move to another apartment and need to make reconstruction/decoration - it will cost 2 time more than several years ago. I stopped buying clothes and other things in the US - because it doesn't make any sense. It's not easy to travel abroad now: last summer we traveled to Netherlands - one of the expensive European countries - during 1 week we spent the same amount of monew as 1 week in the US in 2014, taking into account that in the US we rented a car and made huge great shopping.
Overall, we still live but as someone has already mentioned: there is no hope that finally we will live well, there is no tendency to do so.

[yshikalenko.livejournal.com]

I live in a province, may be citizens of Moskow really feel a fall of life level. I and lot of my friends feel nothing. Ok, Russian currency was reduced. And what? All prices in shops are in rubles and they all increase but not in 2 times. Just for 10% aproximetely. It is not critical at all.

[10-4.livejournal.com]

Its the "cost of doing business", that affects the profit margins. Developed countries are more predictable, so businesses can survive on lower margin. Russia is unpredictable, hense businesses have to account for that.

[10-4.livejournal.com]

No one is taking away guns? Are you serious? The so called "assault rifles" were already confiscated in the NY state, thanks to the SAFE act. Hitlery herself admitted, that complete confiscation is their ultimate goal.

At least, comparing to the hateful democrats, hateful republicans try to shift the balance of power towardx states, which will be much betterfor the people regardless of the rest of their agenda.

[10-4.livejournal.com]

Потому что коррупция везде. Сейчас всё поделено между двумя партиями, и менять всё (а значит, сдавать свои позиции кому то ещё) не выгодно ни правым ни левым. Поэтому любую третью партию будут под улюлюканье толпы маргинализировать и давить с обоих сторон.

[peacetraveler22.livejournal.com]

Yes, NY has some of the strictest gun laws in the USA. I live right by the headquarters of the National Rifle Association in Virginia, so my State is gun friendly. I'm pro Second Amendment. My family has always owned guns and I go to the range, but something has to be done to curb the violence. How can you not support tighter background checks for owners? What is the downside?

[qui11.livejournal.com]

We feel it pretty bad in life quality. Personally i feel great amount of agression everywhere. Never seen such things before.

[10-4.livejournal.com]

What can possibly be tighter, and what gun violence are you talking about? You are very educated person, that is fully capable of working with statistics. An FBI uniformal crime report shows, that every single category of crime decreases steadily since 1993. Including murder. Despite the number of guns in the hands of civilians TRIPLED in the meantime. Democrats are merely fueling the paranoia by constantly repeating the words "gun violence". Same as Trump, that is repeating "mexican" (or muslim) threat.

The background check exists since 1993 (brady bill), and is mandatory for every purchase thru the FFL. There is also the so called loopholes, where private citizens can sell guns to each other. Every single mass shooter either bought their guns legally, passing the background checks, or aquired them illegaly (like Lanza, who killed his mother, or st. Bernardino terrorists, who's friends commited a straw purchase on their behalf), meaning no new gun laws could stop them. Not a single one used this loophole either, so any new regulation, prohibiting such transaction will be merely a kneejerking for the sake of prohibition without any real effect. So, how can we do the background checks tighter, that would possibly have any effect?

There are indeed quite few things, that should be done. I can share my thoughts on it, if you are interested.

[naysayer15.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of simple people EVERYWHERE, who have real income less than 1000$

!!!

[shkadov64.livejournal.com]

If it is short: What is the difference between the crisis of 1991 and the crisis of 2016 in Russia?
In 1991, people had plenty of money, but no goods in the sale.
Now a lot of goods, but no money...
Very expensive imported spare parts for cars...
Increased payment for electricity, Central heating, hot water...