Men are welcome at any time, but women will need to reserve the entire bathhouse to arrange admission.

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These sorts of win-win contracts should make sense at any time, but are even more welcome when budgets are tight, as they are today.

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There is plenty here about everyday life in Moscow in the first and most turbulent years of post-communism a period so extraordinary and so hard to comprehend at the time that any addition to the literature is welcome.

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