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Rising poverty and falling incomes fuel Russia’s Navalny protests

Living standards slide amid stagnant growth, weak investment and government austerity

When Nikolai Novitsky worked as a supermarket cashier in the southern Russian city of Voronezh, his supervisors made him smash goods near their sell-by date and pour sour cream over the stale bread.

As the rubbish festered behind the shop, Novitsky, 41, was shocked to see elderly women — clearly struggling to survive on their meagre pensions — rummage through it in search of food.

“If you work a full shift, you make Rbs22,000 ($290) a month, and that’s nothing — but it’s still a lot more than minimum wage,” Novitsky told the Financial Times.

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