VODKA WAGES
Teachers in central Russia will be receiving their monthly salaries in vodka, because the government’s coffers are empty, the ITAR_Tass news agency reported. The 8,000 educators in Altai Republic, about 1,850 miles east of Moscow, will get 15 bottles of vodka each while local leaders pressure the federal government to pay its debts. It isn’t clear if this offer is a step ahead or behind. Officials previously had tried to pay part of the teachers’ six-month wage arrears with toilet paper and funeral accessories. The payments were refused. From The Memphis Tennessee Commercial Appeal
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