Zippy http://charitybloggers.com/zippy Just another Charitybloggers.com weblog Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Living in Russia http://charitybloggers.com/zippy/2009/03/02/living-in-russia/ http://charitybloggers.com/zippy/2009/03/02/living-in-russia/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:31:54 +0000 zippy http://charitybloggers.com/zippy/?p=3 The credit crunch is hitting Rusisa same as everywhere else of course. But there are some aspects of life here which I find hard to accept.

For example, there are hundreds of workers in my area who are still waiting for their salaries from November, December and January. BUT……their employers are hiring labour from outside Russia and they are being paid on time.

Who says charity begins at home? Not here it seems.

 

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Russia may be becoming more open shall we say: but still pumping out misleading propaganda for local consumpion it seems.

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