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There are no ski slopes, no cable cars, no expensive hotels in this Krasnaya Polyana. It doesn't even have its own hospital or public bathhouse. The Vyatka settlement of Krasnaya Polyana is comparable in number of residents to the Sochi settlement of the same name - about five thousand people live there and there. But the entire annual budget of Vyatka's Krasnaya Polyana easily fits into the cost of a year's stay in a not very expensive room of a not very fashionable hotel in Sochi's Krasnaya Polyana. Here, on the banks of the Vyatka, people often compare their own lives with the lives of their rich and successful southern namesake. But there is no sense in these comparisons - perhaps because there are no snowy peaks or warm seas in the Kirov region. Or perhaps because the authorities have simply forgotten about the small Kirov settlement and its residents. *** Subscribe to CURRENT TIME.DOC - / currenttimedoc