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What's Russia's average pension? How much money will the government save by raising the retirement age? The surprising numbers behind Russian pension reform
Source: Meduza
Sources: Russia's Federal State Statistics Service, the National Research University's Higher School of Economics, Meduza's interview with Mikhail Gorbachev
Figures compiled by Denis Dmitriev and Katerina Kuznetsova, with design by Nastya Grigorieva
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