Galina Stakhanova: “A Monthly Pension of 25 Thousand is Sufficient to Cover my Rent, Electricity and Telephone Expenses”

Galina Konstantinovna admitted that she was barely making ends meet. “My pension is about 25 thousand rubles a month. Enough to pay for an apartment, for electricity, for a telephone … My medicines are very expensive. A lot is spent on them – 10 thousand a month! I take both for hypertension and heart disease …

I don’t have allowances. I didn’t finish anything. I am often asked: “Are you folk?” I answer the truth that I have no titles. I am a nugget, an artist from the people. Folk, but not folk, ”says the 82-year-old artist.