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Word: sadovaya (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rubles ($304) a month even if no one came to dinner. "I didn't care if we had customers or not," he says with a shrug. "I didn't care if the service was good." Two years ago, he started his own now popular bistro, Kropotkinskaya 36, just off Sadovaya Ring Road in the Soviet capital. Fedorov pays himself about 850 rubles ($1,360) a month, nearly four times the average Soviet salary. But he works twice as hard as he ever did as a government employee. "If I don't have customers," he says, "I'll go bankrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Front Line | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

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