Word: islamgazin
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...effort to balance its books. But the government allocated just $6 billion to cover $18 billion in scrapped benefits, and starting in February, some medical benefits and utility and housing subsidies for pensioners, veterans and the disabled will go, too. At the same time, prices are skyrocketing. Rafail Islamgazin, a retired army colonel, wrote to the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda about how the law affects him: "I received some $250 [worth of] benefits, but my monetary compensation is now $31 while my utility bills have increased by 150%. The state must really hate its defenders to taunt them like this...
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