The young Polit.ru journalist concludes her reports on her month spent living on the official sum designated as the minimum required for subsistence. Why aren't officials embarrassed that the minimum wage is even lower than this figure, she wonders.

Earlier this year a young journalist for Polit.ru undertook to live for a month off the sum officially calculated as sufficient to live on. Over the next few days we will be carrying excerpts from Liza's daily blog

Recently, a young Polit.ru journalist from Moscow undertook to live for a month off the sum officially calculated as sufficient to live on. In this second report, she admits she is ill-equipped, and suffering cravings

A young Polit.ru journalist recently undertook to live for a month off the sum officially calculated as sufficient to live on. In this third report, Liza survives the ordeal, with a little help from her readers