Russian one-company towns face decline

Major feature looking at towns and cities in Russia called Monogorod, or mono-city, where a single industry or factory accounts for most of the local economy.

Russia’s government has launched a wide-ranging review of up to 400 such towns and is pondering how to restructure local enterprises, bring in new sources of employment or, as a last resort, shut them down and move the people to new lives and uncertain futures.