Moscow prices
Now let me relate some of my impressions of Moscow. Everything was extremely expensive — four times as much as in America. If you order some orange juice, a little soup and a small cake, it comes to fifty-two American dollars. That is the truth! For pizza, a little orange juice and something else, we paid twenty dollars. For one small samosa, we paid five dollars. Everything, including garments, was unbelievably expensive.
Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy in Russia, Agni Press, 2001