The bridge and the government's rural road-development project will connect remote, underdeveloped regions of eastern Mongolia to the country's urban centres and north-east Asia.

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Through satellite and network systems, high-quality digital educational resources are made available to remote and underdeveloped regions in China including: training teachers in rural areas and providing information technology services and teaching resources to rural schools.

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If you have unique skills and are interested in traveling to underdeveloped, sometimes dangerous regions, the United Nations Volunteers may have a job for you, sometimes in a country consistently beset with disasters.

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Those people, I imagine, will remain receptive to Putin so long as he can continue to offer a modicum of economic growth, and many Russian regions remain underdeveloped enough that even a modest infusion of resources would have a significant impact.

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