"Pension Lasts For Two Weeks, And No One Cares How You Survive"

Pensioners are forced to work even being at well-deserved rest.

Reader Tatsiana Niahrei told Viacherni Babruisk about it:

– What is the main concern of pensioners? It is how to live on a pension! Mine, for example, is 300 rubles. And I have to buy food, medicine. Money lasts for two weeks, then – survive as you wish. Or, spin out the money as you can.

Two hundred square meters of vegetable garden save the situation. We together with my husband plant a little bit of everything – a good help, we have enough, we practically do not go to the market. Now it's hot time, lots of work, we have to plant the vegetable garden.

We have long been accustomed to everything: we make everything ready in the daytime, and do the planting late at night. Thus, the plants do not fade in the heat – it’s still cool at night.

We live on the outskirts, I rarely get to the city center. Mostly, to the clinic. I go by bus, and they always help me to get in, give way. So they are scolding our young people for nothing, I respect them. It’s more difficult for them than for us now. We will somehow survive together for the pension, but they also have small salaries. And they have to feed children and buy clothes for them.