Word: pereulok
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...setting was more reminiscent of Franz Kafka than of Karl Marx. Shcharansky's trial took place in an unprepossessing three-story courthouse on Moscow's Serebrennicheski Pereulok, a quiet back street about a mile from the Kremlin. Although the trial was billed as "open" by Soviet authorities, gray-uniformed militiamen and civilian volunteer policemen stood behind iron barriers, blocking entry to the courtroom to all but a specially selected few. Pleading vainly to be let through was Shcharansky's mother, who may never see her son again. She wept openly, saying, "Not to be allowed into the courtroom...
English in Clean Alley. Alexei is fastidious, ascetic and persistently optimistic. He lives in monastic simplicity at the Patriarchate on Chisty Pereulok (clean alley), in a ground-floor room filled with ikons, paintings and sculptures...
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