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Siberians Tell Moscow: Like It or Not, It's Home

Date: January 28, 2004
Author: Steven Lee Myers
QUOTE: ...it will be one of the largest mass migrations of Russians since the Soviet Union began forcibly populating the region at the height of Stalin's terror in the 1930's. But the experience so far shows the difficulty of undoing by persuasion what was accomplished by decree.

ABSTRACT: The Russian government is finding it too expensive to maintain supply lines to some residents of Siberia and wants them to move to other regions. Many residents are refusing to leave their homes because they feel the government is not providing sufficient funds for new housing and jobs training. Yet it is also the shortfalls in government financing of that has caused ongoing hardships for inhabitants of northern towns and cities, who for decades have had to rely on outside help for survival.

--- oleg yatskar

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