[Pointman]

Originally Posted by Scorch

“ ‘We’re going back to a USSR’: long queues return for Russian shoppers as sanctions bite
After an hour and a half queuing for sugar, or worse still fighting for it in a market, Russians are feeling the effect of shortages caused by an unprecedented cutoff from the world”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...sanctions-bite

https://twitter.com/user/status/1505068461998882821

The story about severe shortage of sugar in Saratov is correct and is widely available in Russian web. However, it does not paint a correct overall picture regarding current situation in Russia. There seems to be no shortage of anything on national scale and shops are still full of things in Moscow. At least, for now.