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- THE WEEK, Page 13WORLDEt Cetera
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- GLOOM IN THE TIME OF GLASNOST
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- In Russia angst is one of the simple pleasures of life.
- But these days it is the one item in oversupply. According to
- a report by the Cherepovets Regional Scientific Methodological
- Center for the Study of Social Problems, 80% of the residents of
- the city, about 230 miles north of Moscow, are in a constant
- state of heightened irritability. The proportion experiencing
- alarm and depression is 70%; agitation and anxiety for no clear
- reason, 61%; a sense that life is meaningless, 42%. Thoughts of
- suicide have increased 20-fold. It might be called the "inside
- story" of reform.
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