few words in advance: I know that this following blog entry isnt’t at all perfect – especially not in a journalistic way. Still I want to post it. Take it as a motiviation to comment and to talk about the observations about the “financial crises” in your surroundings. I think it is a great opportunity since people from (many) different nationalities are reading this blog. It would be really interesting (for me) to hear/read about it!
Construction site in St. Petersburg's city centre, seen from top of Saint Isaac's Cathedral.
A few days ago I watched a newscast on ORF (on-demand) about the financial crises and how it hit(s) Russia. The next day I was jogging in my neighbourhood and since the Austrian newscast talked about “Russian construction sites having a break lately because of the financial crises”, I was really amazed that the construction sites in my neighbourhood were still lively. The following day, I passed this place again and workers were even working at night (or at least when it was already dark). Another day I was doing a little bit of sightseeing in the city center and see there, on top of the Saint Isaac’s Cathedral, you could see a lot of construction sites, where people were still working.
Another thing mentioned in the newscast: Some shops in Moskow were offering fewer products and some products were even already sold out. To be honest, I haven’t really noticed that in St. Petersburg yet (actually not even yet, about two weeks after the mentioned newscast).
People’s feeling
People I talked to about the crises don’t feel any impact on their daily life yet but they think that they will feel an impact in the upcoming months.
In one of our lectures called Russian Political System we also talked about the crisis and its impact on Russians. Our professor said that “normal” people hadn’t yet realized the consequences. But when he had been to Moskow about two weeks ago, he had had the feeling that “nice restaurants” hadn’t anymore been as crambed as they had used to be about two months ago. He said that this was already a sign that wealther people had already started changing their consumer behaviour.
(carina)
