This anti-Putin action took place weeks ago and I missed it.
Axé.
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This anti-Putin action took place weeks ago and I missed it.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Times have changed! I’ve stood exactly where the camera for the video was positioned and at that time it was very quiet with only a long patient line of patriotic folks in front of the Kremlin wall waiting to enter Lenin’s tomb for a viewing of the embalmed former leader. The store front behind the girls at about the 36 second point of the video is the façade of the GUM or ГУМ,, an acronym for Главный универсальный магазин Glavnyi Universalnyi Magazin or main universal store which was the main department store in Moscow. It was the first enclosed mall with a glass ceiling which was commissioned by Catherine the Great in 1890s and served as a central shopping mall until Stalin changed it into government office buildings in the 1920s and was turned back into a shopping center during the 1950s. I bought Georgian wine, $1 US for a bottle, and Siberian caviar at $1 US a jar in the mall.
You are lucky, you have seen it! I’ve never been to Moscow, although I did try back in the day – my great-aunt was an archivist in the Kremlin, and would try to get me visas, but these would arrive expired!
There was another huge anti-Putin march in Moscow on Saturday. For all the good it will do.
And Georgian wine is the best. I buy it at our local Global Foods store. Oh, it’s good.