15 October 1997span> Moscow WILL LEAD RUSSIA to “achieve the greatness and the power that we have the right to declare to the whole world,” Mayor Yurii Luzhkov said at the close of the capital’s 850th anniversary celebration on 7 September. The event concluded weeks of police sweeps in which prostitutes and homeless people were jailed or expelled from the […]
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