Word: putovskova
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...walk back toward Putovskova Square and talk with a middle-age peasant. "I have six children, and I support my two parents on 160 rubles a month," he tells me. "There just isn't enough work." He has a point. According to Soviet officials, Tadzhikistan's birthrate of 45 per 1,000 is by far the highest in the Soviet Union, even as the republic's economy is one of the poorest. Joblessness is openly admitted by Tadzhik officials; an estimated 70,000 to 200,000 are out of work...
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