Here, some 65 metres below the sundrenched streets of Moscow, lies a disused communications bunker.
On 10 March, an estimated 500, 000 citizens poured into the streets of Moscow in a demonstration of support for Yeltsin and condemnation of the Gorbachev regime.
On Sunday and Monday, thousands took to the streets of Moscow in protest of the ban after a state TV program suggested opponents of the law were betraying Russia.
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The protesters took to the streets of central Moscow, waving colorful flags, holding posters of crying babies, and moving to the beat of drums in sub zero Russian weather.
Kremlin rigging of the second Khodorkovsky trial, the corruption smothering daily lives of ordinary citizens, the closing of clogged Moscow streets for Kremlin elite, and the scorn of internet bloggers, such as Alexei Navalny, have made Putin a despised and farcical figure.
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Interestingly, most of the sides of the buildings that face large streets in Moscow and in Murmansk (the city where I spent all of my Russian life) are usually painted, but the sides that face small streets have not been painted in generations.
Local media are reporting that an estimated 120, 000 people are expected to take to the streets in Moscow in four separate demonstrations organized by supporters of Russian prime minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin and his opponents from the Communist Party.
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Observers say social networks also have helped mobilize protesters in Moscow, where tens of thousands have filled the streets to speak out against Russian parliamentary elections they say were rigged.
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In Moscow, the enterprise of scraping the snow off the streets and pavements, forming it into snow hillocks, carting it off in 6, 000-odd snow vehicles for dumping or melting, and finally zapping it with chemicals to speed the thaw is vast and costly (which helps to explain why Yuri Luzhkov, the city's mayor, threatened last year to fine meteorologists who make wrong forecasts).
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Back then the electoral commission simply kicked out observers and blatantly falsified the count, especially in Moscow, leading tens of thousands of Muscovites to take to the streets.
Even as Soviet tanks were rumbling through the streets of Vilnius last week and the Bush Administration was softly urging restraint on Moscow the United States was offering an important trade concession to the Kremlin.
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