A boy walking past wooden communal apartments, built for workers in 1906 during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II, in the centre of the town of Ivanteyevka, Russia. — AFP
TAMARA pointed to her dilapidated wooden house in a town outside Moscow and lamented the economic hardships of daily life in small town Russia.
“Our fathers fought hard and we are left to live in these shacks,” she said in Ivanteyevka, a town of around 80,000 people some 30km from central Moscow.
