Russia bans McDonalds

http://english.pravda.ru/business/companies/25-07-2014/128162-mcdonalds_russia-0/

that is official, coming from now reinstated http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda newspaper.

Putin's Internet propagandist with good knowledge of English earns $1000/month in Russia:
http://www.dp.ru/a/2014/10/27/Borotsja_s_omerzeniem_mo/
http://spb.hh.ru/vacancy/12030335

$1000/month is a really high paid job for just a knowledge of written English.

Programmers earn much less: my salary was like $500 for C/C++ and micro-contollers, working for Russian military contractor.