Nizhny Tagil

It's clear from this Q&A over at FanHouse that Radulov is very interested in playing close to his hometown, Nizhny Tagil, which is only about 350 kilometres from Ufa.

Archive 2008-07-01 James Mirtle 2008

The answer can be found to a certain extent in places like Nizhny Tagil, a city of 400,000 in the Ural Mountains, where on a recent day the heavy metallic stench of a Soviet-era steel plant combined with the subzero temperatures to create a sense of post-apocalyptic misery in many ways unique to this part of the world.

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Since then, Nizhny Tagil has come to embody the central theme of Mr. Putin's campaign to return to the presidency after four years as prime minister.

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But the reality as illustrated here in Nizhny Tagil looks a bit more nuanced.

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As for genuine support for Mr. Putin among the working class in Nizhny Tagil, Mr. Sharafeyev said, "It's a myth."

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Since then, Nizhny Tagil has come to embody the central theme of Mr. Putin's campaign to return to the presidency after four years as prime minister.

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As for genuine support for Mr. Putin among the working class in Nizhny Tagil, Mr. Sharafeyev said, "It's a myth."

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Recently, thousands of workers from Nizhny Tagil and elsewhere in the region were taken by the trainload to Yekaterinburg, the regional capital, for what was portrayed by government television as a

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But the reality as illustrated here in Nizhny Tagil looks a bit more nuanced.

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Verkhososov, 34, a mechanic from the nearby industrial town of Nizhny Tagil, who was bused in for the afternoon by his employer.

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