The newest car model unveiled by Russia’s biggest auto manufacturer earlier this month is generating buzz, but not necessarily for the right reasons. The buzz about AvtoVAZ’s Lada Granta Classic – priced to sell at 678,300 rubles ($12,500) – is about what it doesn’t have: no airbags, no antilock brakes, no electronic stability system, no...
No shirt buttons, no airbags, buggy smartphones: Russia’s economy enters the ‘Twilight Zone’
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