1.   Imports, which make up the bulk of items in grocery stores, are not making it passed the border as the paralyzed banking system has frozen payments.

2.   Russia is broke and has a paralyzed political system.

3.   Many of those lucky to be employed have been waiting weeks to be paid by employers desperate to get money from the paralyzed banking system.

4.   Shamrayev said that the slide could worsen, however, if the government is unable to restart the paralyzed banking system.