Russian retiree wins country's biggest lottery jackpot ever

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kao1632 — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 01:41:26 GMT

The Russian lottery generally pays cash , so, US$8.5m

Wiki says A special tax rate of 35 percent applies to lottery and gambling wins

A Russian site says the tax rate is 13% (treats winnings as additional taxable income) Taxes on winnings in the lottery must be paid by the player independently in accordance with the Tax Code of the Russian Federation. The tax rate is 13 %.

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Comment #8

eddessaknight — Tue, 21 Nov 2017 00:02:47 GMT

Beautiful picture of Mother Daughter winning combo -

Maybe now that they are fortunate capitalist they could consider emigrating to US before the blessing turns into a posssible curse?

Congratulations

Stay Happy, Stay Safe

Eddessa_Knight with Lucky Light

Comment #7

LiveInGreenBay — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:12:32 GMT

Maybe comrade to you. Not to me. Still good for them. Hope they come to the US and escape that repressive government.

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Cassie8620 — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 20:40:37 GMT

ha! i was thinking analogous to your post today, noise-gate.

Congrats.

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music* — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:03:01 GMT

Congratulations to the two Russian beauties! Both have nice clothes on and good looking hairstyles. A great photo.

Now they are also in the money. Happy Days are here again for Natalia Vlassova and her daughter Catherine.

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msharkey2001 — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 17:39:37 GMT

Congrats comrade

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Ron5995 — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:42:14 GMT

Some U.S. lottery official out there is probably thinking rubles, pesos, yen, etc is another way to make jackpots look deceptively bigger. Mega Millions 6.3 billion rubles; Powerball 8 billion rubles. Seems like so much more. Extend out the annuity from 30 years to 40 years and it gets even bigger yet.

$8.5 million USD, even if it's an annuity and less taxes (article doesn't say), is still a great win. Hope it all works out for them.

Comment #2

noise-gate — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:41:57 GMT

The look on the daughter's face at her Mother: Priceless! They finally hit the mother lode, their ship came in. Congrats

Comment #1

hearsetrax — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:59:54 GMT

: spend it wisely

Russian retiree wins country's biggest lottery jackpot ever

Lottery Post — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:40:41 GMT

By Todd Northrop

Russia's state-run lottery company Stoloto says a retiree has won more than half a billion rubles (US$8.5 million), the country's largest-ever jackpot.

Natalia Vlassova, a 63-year-old retiree from the region of Voronezh, claimed the record jackpot worth 506,000,000 rubles along with her daughter Catherine this week at lottery headquarters.

Natalia bought her ticket from a local post office but waited a week to check the numbers, thinking it was a losing ticket.

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