Word: prospekt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some 6,000 demonstrators remained, refusing to leave. Catholicos- Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church Ilya II warned the crowd of an impending "horror," but he was hooted down. Suddenly the streetlights went out, and darkness descended on Rustaveli Prospekt, the city's main avenue. Waves of soldiers, supported by tanks and armored personnel carriers, swept into the crowd carrying clubs and spades. Some citizens fought back with rocks. Others bolted, trampling women and the elderly...
...rationed in 67 of the Russian Republic's 86 administrative districts. Other goods that are frequently hard to find: good cheese, coffee, chocolate, fresh fruit and bath towels. "Fruit and vegetables have always been scarce in the Russian winter," said a gray- haired man shopping on Moscow's Kutuzovsky Prospekt. "But it's worse than ever this year...
...mile from the Kremlin; he also maintains an office in a building just behind the Lenin Mausoleum and the Kremlin wall, but he uses it mostly to receive visitors. He usually returns home at about 6 p.m. in another motorcade. Extra traffic police are stationed along Kutuzovsky Prospekt to clear the central lanes for the four limousines. He stays downtown late only when there is some special ceremonial function or when, as often happens, the regular Thursday Politburo meeting runs into the evening...
Those meetings with Lyolya, usually in front of the big Dom Igrushki toy store on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, sometimes seemed more like a TV sitcom than what they were and still are: an essential and sometimes perilous part of a Moscow correspondent's job. Moscow's Lyolyas -- what few are left after years of KGB crackdowns -- carry news of dissidents, refuseniks, political prisoners, religious activists, divided families and the other sad human detritus of a totalitarian state. The news is usually depressing, time consuming to gather, and often of too little import to warrant reporting. But still it must be covered...
...last only four days, and because of the brevity of my visit, I chose to bypass the sights which Intourist strongly recommended. I never did purchase a ballet or circus ticket, and I walked past the opulent department store--for those with Western currency only, thank you--on Nevsky Prospekt, Leningrad's business district...