A remark by the Russian prime minister, who told an irate pensioner that
there was no money to increase state pensions but that she should “hang on in
there”, has sparked a subversive backlash against the government.
Heckled by an angry woman during a recent visit to Crimea, Dmitry Medvedev
tried to explain why pensions in the territory, annexed from Ukraine two years
ago, had not been raised.
“There’s no money . . . we’ll be dealing with pensions for the entire
country, we can’t just raise them for one region,” he told the woman during a
walkabout.
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