Sergey Abashin writes: “All of Petersburg is covered with ads like this.”
This ad says that on the day you sign a contract to serve in the Russian army you’ll be issued a plot of land (for building your own house) near Petersburg whose market value is around two million rubles. You’ll also (?) get a one-time payment of 500,000 rubles. Your monthly pay in the army (if you serve in the “special military operation zone,” says the fine print) starts at 200,000 rubles.
According to the municipal statistics agency Petrostat (as cited by business daily Delovoi Peterburg), the average monthly wage in the city was 101,155 rubles in August. At current exchange rates, that amounts to around 1,056 USD. ||| TRR
