By Alexander Winning and Natalia Shurmina MIASS, Russia (Reuters) - In Russia's industrial heartland, people are finding ways to cope with an economic crisis that has stretched household budgets to breaking point. The stories told in Miass, a mid-sized city in the Urals that is home to a sprawling truck factory and a plant that makes missiles for submarines, show how people's tolerance and resilience have helped avert a deeper economic slump. Nikolai Matveev, a trucker, said his family had saved on food by eating home-grown vegetables and meat from the animals he shoots while hunting.
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April 12th, 2016
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