Tag: Elena Afanasyeva

More than Half of Russia’s Urban Residents are Now Poor

January 21, 2015

Staunton, January 21 – For many, the face of poverty in Russia is to be found in the country’s dying countryside, but a new survey finds that more than half of the population of its largest cities is now poor, and predicts that ever more urban Russians are becoming poor, a development with potentially ominous […]