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randall8 Just Starting Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 2	Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:33 am    Post subject: Pensions I read that a male pensioner in Russia should be at least 60 years old. I have a friend in Russia that claims their father, who is a retired military officer receives a pension, but is only 53 years old. Is that right?
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vorteks VIP Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 571 Location: European Union	Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:23 am    Post subject: Militaries usually retire sooner, due to a riskier carrier. Here they retire at 45, but i dunno if it applies to Russia.
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Intourist Talk Show Host Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 245 Location: Moscow	Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:46 am    Post subject: Yes, completely possible. Different ranks of officers have different retirement ages. Some are older than 60. 2 or 3 star generals can go up to 65, if I'm not mistaken.
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Vic Talk Show Host Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 298 Location: Moscow, Russian Federation	Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 8:16 pm    Post subject: Yes, they can retire anytime after 45 or if they are laid-off (happened in the 90's when the army was downsized, most of them were over 40 though) Also one interesting thing, 1 year in the far east counts as 1.5 years. My uncle who served near Vladivostok retired at the age of 47 having served for 25 ACTUAL years, but since 20 of them were in the far east, he 'really' served 35 years and they also count the 5 years in the academy so thats 40 years. Not bad. He also gets a pretty nice pension now because of that. Now the guy lives quietly with his wife in a small town north of Omsk on their nice pension and he spends his time either fishing or making wood-crafts (pretty nice ones) as a hobby. Vic
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randall8 Just Starting Joined: 05 Apr 2005 Posts: 2	Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 9:53 pm    Post subject: Pensions Thanks for the info. The pension system is similar to the one for military in the USA.
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Vic Talk Show Host Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 298 Location: Moscow, Russian Federation	Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Pensions randall8 wrote: Thanks for the info. The pension system is similar to the one for military in the USA. Do you have the same 1 year = 1.5 year credit if you serve in 'remote places'? If so, what are some places that would fall under that category?
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