Trickle-Down Lawlessness
My friend Nikita was looking drawn and tired the last time I saw him. He's a historian, but he doesn't have much time for archives these days. Instead, most of his energy is devoted to fighting the Moscow city authorities who want the residents of his state-owned apartment building to move out, presumably to sell the building to developers. He's willing to leave the apartment he's lived in for decades, but the law requires the authorities to find him a new apartment in the same part of central Moscow. None had been forthcoming.
Some of the tenants were giving up, even drifting out of town.… Seguir leyendo »