BARENTSBURG, Norway – In this coal-mining town on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, the school instructs in Russian, food is priced in rubles and a large Soviet-era sign declares: “Our Goal is Communism.”
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View taken on June 4, 2010 shows the remains of a former coal mine train in the scientists base of Ny-Alesund.
