卢布贬值近一半 女性买不起口红
几个月以来，在美国和欧盟的经济制裁下，俄罗斯货币卢布贬值近一半。除富豪资产缩水外，女性连一支口红也买不起。
A Russian politician has offered some sage advice to women struggling to afford imported beauty products: use beetroot instead of lipstick.
Siberian senator Igor Chernishev suggested women who could not afford expensive imported lipstick could opt for the 'natural look' or even use beetroot as an alternative to make-up.
Mr Chernishev, who represents the city of Tomsk, wrote on a Russian website: 'Women can live without imported lipstick, men like a natural look.
'And if they really must use make-up on the lips – there's no problem, they can use beetroot. It's natural and chemicals don't enter the body.'
The senator also claimed that Russian women had no need to buy expensive imported underwear. 'Our women will look better in lingerie made in Moscow than in France,' he said.
It comes as Barack Obama warned President Vladimir Putin was at the centre of 'a huge economic contraction' due to the Ukraine crisis.
Speaking to CNN yesterday [SUN] Obama rejected suggestions he had been 'outmanoeuvred' by Putin.
He said: 'Right now, he's presiding over the collapse of his currency, a major financial crisis and a huge economic contraction.
'That doesn't sound like somebody who has rolled me or the United States of America.'
The EU and the US have imposed a series of economic sanctions on Russia, and the financial crisis there has seen the rouble halve in just a few months.
The effects of the crisis are being felt not just within the country, but further afield too, with France's ski resorts reporting a dip in super-rich and middle class Russians visiting tourist destinations.
Falling Russian tourism has also been reported in Austria, Germany, Cyprus, as well as in the UK.