“If the retirement age is increased, every citizen of Russia will be robbed for more than a million rubles ($16,000) and it is unacceptable,” activist Sergei Udaltsov said at the Moscow demonstration."
"He said if a referendum on the subject isn’t held, “millions will go to the streets. We will demand not only stopping the pension reform but also a change of power – the dismissal of the government, the dissolution of the Duma and the impeachment of the president.”
Here’s what I’m most interested in. What eventually happens to this guy who’s talking about impeaching Putin. Does he make it to his next birthday?
Seems to me the bigger problem is the life expectancy for Russians.
For instance in Canada it is 81 while in Russia it is 71.
So yes I may retire 5 years later but I am expected to enjoy it for 16 years. Where as even at 60 the average Russian only enjoys 10 years of retirement.
Now earlier retirement maybe a factor in that they should try upping just one year and see the impact over 3 to 5 years.
Their complaint is that they work until almost death paying into something that they either won’t live long enough to collect or die shortly after they qualify for.
