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Originally Posted by Antonio
How? Simple, the Russians with money are the ones that travel abroad. I don't expect some guy that makes $200 per month to go to Spain for two weeks every summer.
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I don't think it's possible to earn $200 a month in Russia. At least I don't know such people who would work for that money. The real salaries here start from about $1000 a month (my son who is a student earns that money for a part-time job with a free schedule).
Also we have a definition of white and black salary. This means that you officially earn $1000 a month and you/your employer pay taxes of it (white salary), plus to that you get say $4000 in an envelope right to your pocket (
black salary). This is why Russians always spent "more" than they "earn". The official salary stats in Russia do not include the most important part of the salary - the black one
P.S. Yes, it's a corruption and a tax evasion, but this is how almost all the companies work here.