An old woman asleep on a park bench in Tomsk, Siberia. Despite Russia's tremendous economic boom in recent years, it is estimated that one in four peo

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An old woman asleep on a park bench in Tomsk, Siberia. Despite Russia's tremendous economic boom in recent years, it is estimated that one in four people live below the poverty line. A former trading hub, Tomsk fell into obscurity when construction of the Trans-Siberian railway favoured the nearby industrial city of Novosibrisk instead.

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