An Australian in Moscow who built a channel out of the most boring possible subject and made it useful: he walks into a supermarket, films every price tag, and adds up the receipt at the till. Then he does the same with apartments — a rental-standard flat, a luxury tower, a suburban block — and tells you the monthly cost.
This is the closest thing on YouTube to a price index you can watch. He is friendly about Russia, and he does not pretend to be doing journalism: the value is in the footage of shelves, kitchens, schools and receipts that nobody else bothers to film.
What this channel shows better than anyone
- Supermarket receipts: the same basket in a cheap chain and an expensive one, filmed end to end.
- Apartment tours across price brackets — you see the actual kitchen, not a brochure.
- Ordinary infrastructure: a new school, a clinic, a suburban shopping centre.
A second opinion
Where we would add a number or a correction — not a complaint.
“The supermarket tours can read as "Russia is cheap" in general.”
Groceries and transport are cheap by Western European standards; Moscow rent and electronics are not. A one-bedroom inside the Third Ring runs well above what the food basket suggests.