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igammarays · 2022-02-22 10:58:15

I refer to the cities, not the whole oblast.

alexb7c4 | karma 11 | avg karma 2.2 · | 2018-11-27 06:34:47+00:00

Not nation wide technically speaking - in 10 oblasts(regions) out of 24

milesskorpen | karma 1266 | avg karma 2.99 · | 2019-06-06 15:23:27+00:00

I think the article is pretty explicitly talking about existing cities. Not Siberia.

spacejunkie | karma 18 | avg karma 3.6 · | 2011-04-09 15:41:46+00:00

Not one city marked in Russia?

sneed_chucker | karma 1337 | avg karma 2.84 · | 2024-02-15 04:24:43

I know that basically all the wealth of the country is concentrated in Moscow and Petersburg, but are they really the only livable cities?

I was under the impression that several of the larger cities are pretty nice and modern, like Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Kazan, and so on.

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illicium | karma 514 | avg karma 2.03 · | 2010-06-14 01:55:00

Default City's in Russia :p

allarm | karma 317 | avg karma 0.61 · | 2022-12-27 18:38:23

Leningrad to be precise. And it’s hardly a peripheral city.

RandomLensman | karma 2182 | avg karma 1.12 · | 2022-05-12 06:15:18

I clearly state that I am referring to Kaliningrad.

Grue3 | karma 4020 | avg karma 1.9 · | 2014-06-24 11:38:28+00:00

>Moscow

There's your problem (or lack thereof).

The provincial cities had it worse.

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xg15 | karma 16670 | avg karma 3.55 · | 2016-08-02 11:33:09+00:00

Why the strong focus on Russian/Ex-Soviet cities in the article, though? It seems odd that there is a detailed list of present-day closed cities in Russia but only passing mention of other countries.

Arnt | karma 6341 | avg karma 1.66 · | 2024-03-02 21:44:19

I looked at the map then and against tonight, can't find a city whose name rings a bell. Russia is large enough to overlook things ;) It was some way east of Moscow, a little north of due east perhaps, still west of the Urals, and from context it would be an industrial city in an industrial area. Sorry, but I just can't remember the name.

Are you suggesting that 81% is even close to reality? Almost 200 ethnic groups and one of them forms 81% sounded like cooked bookkeeping to me.

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xvilka | karma 6760 | avg karma 3.09 · | 2022-02-07 10:50:45

Not many in Moscow apart from a few elite suburbs.

jnsaff2 | karma 3047 | avg karma 3.07 · | 2024-01-08 06:19:21

Imagine you live in Kyiv, Mariupol or Bucha.

watwut | karma 13879 | avg karma 1.1 · | 2022-10-29 13:37:45

Those are names of the cities Russia actually flattened. Infrastructure, houses themselves, turned from cities full of life to nothing.

Not, like, some part of it, but almost all of it.

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thriftwy | karma 1675 | avg karma 0.51 · | 2024-01-26 19:24:56

Ok, I get it, your knowledge about Russian cities is from Varlamov.

That's just a great source, totally makes up for the the real thing. Have a nice day.

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benterix | karma 1806 | avg karma 2.59 · | 2023-10-23 02:38:45

It's not actually Moscow but a town nearby, the title is misleading.

tryauuum | karma 613 | avg karma 1.55 · | 2023-11-26 05:35:32

don't be depressed. Moscow is the only russian city that accomplishes that. Even Saint-Petersburg cannot do that.

smcl | karma 13675 | avg karma 2.97 · | 2022-07-26 03:42:59

There are plenty of gloomy and dystopian cities that are not Russian, let's not get weird about this

equalunique | karma 1060 | avg karma 1.31 · | 2019-08-21 20:48:50

It's for the Moscow municipal government, not national-level.

magv | karma 232 | avg karma 5.8 · | 2009-08-10 11:06:39+00:00

Whoa. Dnepropetrovsk.