A Muscovite was fined 50 thousand rubles under an article about “discrediting” the army because of his dyed hair.
At the end of April this year, Stas Netesov came to the police department to write a statement about theft - he was attacked at a bus stop, his phone was stolen and his tooth was knocked out. However, a report was drawn up against him for “discrediting” the RF Armed Forces.
The police did not like the appearance of the young man; they considered his blue and yellow hair colors to be support for Ukraine. In addition, security forces took fingerprints from the young man. They also told Netesov that they would force him to “kiss his native soil in the trenches” and handed him a summons to the military registration and enlistment office.
The Tverskoy Court of Moscow fined Netesov 50 thousand rubles in early May.
A fine of about $550 USD.
And basically sentenced for life on top of that.
*death
Unless he successfully surrenders.
Not likely, but there's hope.
Or he gets lost, going by the forest
Great opportunity to frag some officers once he gets a rifle.
Although tempting, it probably isn't worth the risk. I highly doubt he's going to be very well trained so I wouldn't risk it if I were him I'd just run away at some point when they're not looking.
For reference, a friend of mine who works full time as a teacher in St. Petersburg was making about 350-400€ a month back in 2017. With inflation and the exchange rate falling, she is probably making 200€ now. So $550 is a lot of money, even if you live in a major city.
It's about double the average salary in Russia.
Yeah when you're doing conversions like this it's sort of more useful to convert effective buying power rather than a direct price conversion.
It's a bit wishy-washy. Food and housing bills are cheaper (a flat you own is like...$50-100 a month in a city that's not moscow), but anything imported can get really fucking expensive - either you get cheap crap from china, or if you have to get something name-brand it is usually more expensive than it is in europe. Like how Valve Index ($1k MSRP) was like $2-3k in the shops.
So a person outside of moscow can be living on $100 to $250 but not be able to afford any luxuries that could be more afforable outside of russia.