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There are 30 item(s) tagged with the keyword "money".

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21. Tips, Please!

Tipping in Russia is not always the most transparent.

Tags: Customs, money, restaurants
22. Meet the New Minister, Meat in a Sausage, Mete Out a Fine

This week: education! Tests for hopeful investors, savings for college, and learning what exactly is in sausage. 

Tags: tyumen, education, dissent, Internet, money, sausage, food, chechnya
23. Camouflage Candles, Cats in Quarantine, and Belarus

This week Russians get diet advice, the president of Belarus gets kicked out of a neighboring country, and even cats aren't excused from social distancing.

Tags: military, religion, russian food, money, coronavirus, animals, politics, belarus, lukashenko, international relations
24. Criminal QR-Codes

Be careful what QR-codes you scan in Russia, you may be opening yourself up to fraud.

Tags: money, fraud
25. Crime Pays

A Russian woman makes 2 million euros through illicit means.

Tags: government, law, money, prison, crime
26. Rocket Man Rides, Family Life, and Bootlegging, Russian-style

In this week's Odder News: a forgetful traveler, spaceman transport, and the seal of approval.

Tags: Orthodox Church, money, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, cars, gagarin
27. Big Banks Are Watching You

Russian banks to start testing biometric ATMs. This is probably a good idea.

Tags: technology, business, money
28. How to Become a Millionaire: Go Postal

The Russian Postal Service made more than 170 millionaires in 2019.

Tags: russian post, Russia, money
29. Talk about Inflation!

You won't believe how much a woman in Chelyabinsk is asking for her 1000R bill.

Tags: ruble, money
30. From Fairy Magic to Retirement Planning

Russia's Central Bank believes people's financial illiteracy and economic troubles stem from bad messaging in Russian folk tales. Could it be true?

Tags: saving, money, fairy tales

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