MOSCOW PRESENTS AND ALMOST surreal image nowadays, The centre of the city is well-supplied with supermarkets, boutiques restaurants (some of which do not sell fast food), pubs and clubs. Allare happy to be paid in roubles. Western goods are mostly rendered on advertising hardings in Cyrillic script. Prosperity appears to have arrived. These new facilities have risen up in a few years during which Russia has experienced one of the worst economic declines any nation has ever faced without war. The trappings of consumerism provide a screen behind which the only sign a brief visit gives that all is not quite right is the presence at the door of your restaurant of a man in military fatigues carrying a machine gun.
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