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Many experts believe that the long-expected sacking of the head of the Moscow government occurred as a result of all-embracing corruption in the city. This is the situation when everything looks right on its face, but it's mockery in essence. The main reason for the Moscow mayor's resignation is corruption that has been eating the entire capital, and absolutely incredible preferences to "insiders". |
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| Geography: Kresty
Kresty, the notorious Russian prison in St. Petersburg, consists of two cross-shaped buildings (hence the name the "Crosses"). It began as St. Petersburg's wine storage warehouse in the 1730's. Later, it was used by landowners to incarcerate serfs, and it eventually became infamous as a solitary confinement facility for political prisoners.
On 28 April 1995 the monument To the victims of Political repressions made by Mikhail Shemyakin was installed on the embankment across the Neva River from the prison. It depicts two bronze sphinxes with pretty women's faces as seen from the residential houses on the embankment and bare skulls as seen from the prison's side of the river. There is a stylized window with prison bars between the sphinxes. On the granite base of the monument there are inscriptions with quotes from Anna Akhmatova, Nikolay Gumilyov, Osip Mandelstam, Nikolay Zabolotsky, Daniil Andreyev, Dmitry Likhachev, Joseph Brodsky, Yuri Galanskov, Vladimir Bukovsky, Vladimir Vysotsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
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