What does a 1000 rubles buy?

A 1000 rubles is as per todays exchange = $17.69… I bought groceries for about six meals and that translates into around $3.00 a meal….two people, who will eat good. I bought, eight chicken breasts frozen, big bottle of soda, almost a kilo of red and yellow peppers, special tofu noodles, two cans of mushrooms, […]

Putin sometimes tells jokes…

Putin tells an old yarn from the Soviet era about bureaucratic unpredictability: Just one variation of transcript below. Video is actually Putin… An American spy goes to Lubyanka (the headquarters of the Soviet secret police in Moscow) and says: — I’m a spy, I want to turn myself in. — Who do you work for? […]