Monday, May 30, 2016

Medvedev tells pensioner: There’s just no money. Cheers!

A remark by the Russian prime minister, who told an irate pensioner that there was no money to increase state pensions but that she should “hang on in there”, has sparked a subversive backlash against the government.

Heckled by an angry woman during a recent visit to Crimea, Dmitry Medvedev tried to explain why pensions in the territory, annexed from Ukraine two years ago, had not been raised.

“There’s no money . . . we’ll be dealing with pensions for the entire country, we can’t just raise them for one region,” he told the woman during a walkabout.



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