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What do rural Russia and rural America have in common?
Vladimir Putin is wildly popular in Russia’s economically depressed cities like Chelyabinsk. In the country’s heartland, the city was an industrial center until the fall of communism. Globalization gobbled up the factory jobs and spit out a city without a future -- echoes of our own Rust Belt in America.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readVladimir Putin is wildly popular in Russia’s economically depressed cities like Chelyabinsk. In the country’s heartland, the city was an industrial center until the fall of communism. Globalization gobbled up the factory jobs and spit out a city without a future -- echoes of our own Rust Belt in America.
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- 10:15Independent contractors signal the future of work
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