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...might have to fire up to 600 more. The cable factory laid off 40 people and cut pay 15% for those who remained. At least they're being paid: the machinery factory nearby is two months in arrears. "People woke up one day, and everything had changed," says Ivan Pronin, editor of the local paper, the Lyudinovo Worker. "It's like a hurricane blew through here...
...town's factories closed and 4,000 workers lost their jobs. But by October, after a run of good years, the number of unemployed people had fallen to just 320. That number doubled in November, and for this year, all bets are off. "This is just the beginning," says Pronin, the newspaper editor, with worry...
...which just this year started up a new production line - laid off 40 people, and cut pay for those who remained by 15%. At least they're being paid: the machinery factory nearby is two months in arrears. "People woke up one day and everything had changed," says Ivan Pronin, the editor of the local paper, the Lyudinovo Worker. "It's like a hurricane blew through here all of a sudden...
...factories closed and 4,000 workers lost their jobs. But by this October, after a run of good years, the number of unemployed people had fallen to just 320. That number doubled in November, and for next year all bets are off. "This is just the beginning," worries editor Pronin...
...Pronin's problems are complicated by outmoded city regulations. Since he is not a legally registered resident of the capital, he cannot seek help through the welfare system and thus is barred from disability benefits and treatment at city hospitals. Moscow's few free canteens cannot feed him because they have already filled their quota of selected recipients. Pronin survives by collecting tin cans and bottles and cashing them in for a few rubles to buy bread. "I don't have to have butter," he says. "I live on bread, salt and water...