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  • The Russian government has been trying to help the country's troubled monogorods, single-factory towns devastated by the economic crisis.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Luke Hardin 2010

  • When the factory goes under, the whole town is effectively destroyed, and the resultant mass of unemployed people with nothing else to do means that monogorods could well become the focal points for anti-government protests.

    Slate Magazine 2009

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