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The leaked plan said such places had "no future" and were not worth developing.
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Originally posted by FoxStriker
Did anyone read the actual article...
Originally posted by FoxStriker
They want to move people were it would be economically possible for Russia to have a triving economy.
Originally posted by FoxStriker
What is more important is that Russia want to do this in order to more easily provide basic utilities...
Originally posted by FoxStriker
At the same time... the youth's of Russia are moving out of small communities and into bigger cities as stated in the article...
Originally posted by FoxStriker
Basically the article is stating that those small towns and villages are shrinking to the point were providing essentials is becoming more expensive and inefficient.
Unlike in Stalin's day, when people were forced to move at gunpoint on the often spurious grounds that they were 'enemies of the people' or Nazi collaborators, relocating would be optional and encouraged on economic grounds alone.
Much of rural Russia is dying as young people move to towns and cities anyway and entire Soviet-era settlements which were built around just one or two factories are no longer economically viable.
Analysts said the plan, which would roll back the Soviet idea of urbanizing the entire country, is likely to be heavily touted by President Dmitry Medvedev as part of his agenda to modernize Russia.