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January 07, 2006
Nikolai Valentinov, 70 was in World War 2 and was employed on the Chernobyl clean-up operation. He now lives here with his wife Lapina. Due to severe cataracts he is virtually blind and is unable to claim the meagre pension (US$7 a month) to which he is entitled as his documents were stolen. Due to various factors and inability of the state to intervene, they live in a situation of downward spiralling poverty.
