Tag: Olga Golodets

RUSSIALINK RBTH: “Vice-premier: Russia has a unique phenomenon – workers are officially poor”

Economy, Business, Investment, Trade
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Olga Golodets speaks out about worrying trend in the country: despite having regular jobs, millions of people are stuck below the poverty line due to poor wages. (Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – March 16, 2017) Russian Vice-Premier Olga Golodets has highlighted the fact that alarmingly low wages in the country are keeping people with regular jobs below the […]

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Russian deputy prime minister says no plans to raise pension age

Politics, Government, Protests, Elections
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(Interfax – October 20, 2015) Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets has said that the Russian government is not yet planning to raise the pension age. “We are not planning this over the period of time we use for planning. No, we are not,” Golodets told journalists on Tuesday [20 October] when asked when the government was planning to resume discussions […]

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