Russia: A city sinks into the ground | Focus on Europe
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Some call it the Russian Atlantis: Berezniki, a city in the Ural Mountains known for its potash mines, is slowly sinking into the ground. Its 140,000 residents live in constant fear of being swallowed up by a sinkhole. More from this edition of Focus on Europe: http://www.dw.com/en/focus-on-europe-spotlight-on-people-2016-09-14/e-19498763-9798
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Partially inhabitable? What part? The ground floor?
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Except for the resources you extract from the earth....
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Happens to every mining town. A mine is established, a town to service the mine follows, mine is exhausted and closed down, town is abandoned. Nothing on earth is permanent.
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Dictator Putin and his oligarchs are ruining Russia and the people are too brainwashed or afraid to speak up against them.
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