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A young journalist's compelling diary reveals that to be poor in Russia is to survive rather than live 

With 2,000 rubles, you can eat for a month, says the state. A young journalist tries...

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