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Posted Sun Apr 13 2008: from London Independent:
Russian town is so toxic even the mayor wants it closed down http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1208098778
"Harsh winters, polluted air, crumbling apartment blocks..." the residents of many Russian towns might feel that they have cause for complaint. But in Chapayevsk, a town of about 70,000 inhabitants in European Russia, the mayor himself has suggested a novel way of solving the town's problems ... abandon it. You can hardly blame him ... 96 per cent of all children there are deemed unhealthy."
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