Article: Barter System Is Replacing Cash In Russian Economy
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Barter System Is Replacing Cash In Russian Economy
Every hour, thousands of shiny cans of beef and pork roll off the assembly line at the Smolmyaso cannery Hera. For the troupe, it's better than printing rubles. In this function of the world, Smolmyaso's 12-ounce cans of kernel ar as good as immediate payment. The cannery trades its finished product for cows and pigs to slaughter, aluminum to shuffle the cans, equipment to john the substance, electricity to run the equipment and cardboard boxes to ship the cans.
It even pays its taxes in canned beef and pork. "Canned core has become like the dollar Here," said Smolmyaso Director Vadim Skorbyashchev, holding up one of the cans. "These our dollars." With the dismantling of the Soviet command saving, Western advisers and international lenders expected a modern marketplace thri...
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