Putin's Russia

Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Kazan 2 November 2007.Massive construction work is underway in Kazan, the capital of the oil rich region of Tartarstan, giving the city the felling of a "boom town" but many of the poor and elderly like they've been left behind. Older, more traditional style homes and building are either left to rot or condemned and bought up by property developers who make huge profits from forced evictions of tenants from state owned properties.

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Photo by Heathcliff Omalley..Kazan 2 November 2007.Massive construction work is underway in Kazan, the capital of the oil rich region of Tartarstan, giving the city the felling of a "boom town" but many of the poor and elderly like they've been left behind. Older, more traditional style homes and building are either left to rot or condemned and bought up by property developers who make huge profits from forced evictions of tenants from state owned properties.