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Agence France Presse, reporting from Makiyivka, Ukraine, writes: "Already rocked by the collapse of the Soviet Union's command economy, the global economic crisis means the metals factories have been struck by a plunge in export orders that count for 80 percent of their production."

Ukraine’s rust belt: the eye of the economic storm