Viktor Kozlov used to drive a tractor on a Soviet-era state farm, but when times got tough, he moved to the coal-rich Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk and started selling coal to residents there to heat their homes.
Originally published at – https://www.rferl.org/a/coals-to-krasnoyarsk-selling-coal-on-credit-to-siberia-s-poor/30994150.html

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