Starting today, your salary is 167,000 rubles a month. My warmest congratulations! Hooray! ⠀ Having doubts? You shouldn’t. On October 3, 2008, national leader V. V. Putin held an "emergency government meeting." There, with great pomp, he declared that starting in 2020, the average salary in Russia would be $2,700 a month. So take a look at your pay stub. Putin couldn’t possibly have lied. Which means you’re making 167K—or even more. ⠀ And by the way, let your pensioner relatives know that they, too, have something to celebrate. According to Putin’s promise, the average pension is now 25,000 rubles! ⠀ Or is it not? Could it really be that they failed to do anything at all, and simply stole everything and ran the country into the ground? Hard to believe, somehow.