Russians Spent More Than $20 Billion On Fortune Tellers Last Year But Moscow Not Ready To Rein In This Business Sector – OpEd

Despite the economic squeeze between rising prices and stable or falling incomes that many Russians feel, residents of that country last year, faced with uncertainty about the future, spent 2.1 trillion rubles – or more than 20 billion US dollars – on the services of fortune tellers and others in that exotic sector.

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