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Siberia - Is Life Getting Better?
The panel is asked: has life improved in Siberia since the collapse of the Soviet Union?
The show comes from Tomsk, in Siberia, and asks whether life has changed here for the better since the Soviet Union collapsed. What has the transition from Communism to a market economy meant for ordinary people? What opportunities have opened up - and what problems? Three panellists join the show to debate this including a local businessman, a university professor, and Nikolai Petrov from the Carnegie Endowment Centre in Moscow.
Picture: Russian Orthodox Church, Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Credit: Getty Images
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