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Russian City Ever Watchful Against Being Sucked Into Earth
Jeremiah Cornelius writes "Dmitry Rybolovlev bought the most expensive apartment ever sold in New York City — the $88 million penthouse at 15 Central Park West — and did much for local real estate values. But in Berezniki, the mining city where he made his fortune, properties have literally been plunging. 'Imagine putting a sugar cube in a cup of tea,' Mikhail A. Permyakov, the chief land surveyor for Uralkali, the company that owns the mine. 'That is what happened under Berezniki.' Berezniki is afflicted by sinkholes, hundreds of feet deep, that can open at a moment's notice. So grave is the danger that the entire city is under 24-hour video surveillance. In 2008 a government commission cleared Mr. Rybolovlev of wrongdoing, blaming past unsafe practices for the sinkholes. A senior official close to Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin says that Mr. Rybolovlev bears some responsibility, even though he sold the mine after the occurrence of the first great openings."
Everything but the kitchen sinking!
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“We will fight the holes with science,” the mayor, Sergei P. Dyakov, said in an interview.
Meanwhile in America, we hold prayer vigils for rain.
Didn't anyone inform them that things tend to disappear in Russia? In this case, the entire city.
In the west you sink money into mining investments, in russia money in mining investments sink YOU!
So grave is the danger
I see what you did there.
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In Soviet Russia, hole buries you!
Shouldn't it be;
In Soviet Russia, hole sinks you!
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In my experience Unions are run by people who want to be Wealth influential people. They don't really care about the works they are supposed to represent.
Well your free to have your opinion Mr Murdoch.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.