According to her, the Ministry’s experts “don’t see any shock or cataclysm in the social sphere”. She specified that living wage in the second quarter of the current year grew by 1.8% and now totals 9,956 rubles ($157.5) per capita.
Over this period, living wage for working-age population grew by 1.9% and now totals 10,722 rubles ($169.63), the growth for pensioners amounted to 1.7% and 1.9% - for children.
At the same time, Antonova described this dynamics as a “traditional slight growth”.