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   Millions more Russians living in poverty   
      
   Nearly 20 million now surviving on wages which are below the poverty   
   threshold according to latest state statistics   
      
   A queue to buy fresh raw meat from private vendors at a monthly street market   
   in Kemerovo, Russia. State statistics have revealed the number of people   
   living below the poverty line is increasing.   
      
   A queue to buy fresh raw meat from private vendors at a monthly street market   
   in Kemerovo, Russia. State statistics have revealed the number of people   
   living below the poverty line is increasing.   
      
   Russia’s recession-hit economy has propelled the country’s poverty rate to a   
   nine-year high, state statistics showed, as the country struggles to cope   
   with a crippling economic crisis.   
      
   An average of 19.2 million Russians – or 13.4% of the population – were   
   living last year on less than 9,452 roubles ($139) a month, the minimum   
   subsistence level determined by the Russian government in the fourth quarter.   
      
   This figure represents a 20% increase year-on-year, with an average 16.1   
   million people living below the poverty threshold in 2014.   
      
   More Russians have been slipping into poverty on the back of the Western   
   sanctions and low oil prices that have battered the country’s energy-   
   dependent economy and significantly diminished purchasing power.   
      
      
      
   Increasing poverty represents a setback for the Kremlin strongman, whose   
   popularity had long been fuelled by the growing wealth of the Russian   
   population as a result of high oil prices in the first decade of his   
   presidency.   
      
   Aided by state media, Putin has managed to maintain a vertiginous approval   
   rating in spite of economic woes, reaching 87% in August, according to the   
   Levada Centre, an independent pollster based in Moscow.   
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   But the pollster’s latest data shows the population’s trust in Putin has   
   eroded, dropping 10% over the last year to reach 73% this month.   
      
   Russia’s energy-reliant economy shrank by 3.7% in 2021 and is set to continue   
   suffering this year.   
      
   In September, the World Bank warned against a “troubling” increase in poverty   
   in Russia resulting from a sharp drop in the income of the most vulnerable   
   social groups including pensioners.   
      
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