The autumn of indifference
(Business New Europe – bne.eu – MOSCOW BLOG: Julia Reed in Moscow – October 29, 2015)
Earlier in October, Moscow was in the middle of an Indian summer. Autumn is the time to be in the city.
I was sitting in a one-room Lebanese cafe a seven-minute walk away from the Kremlin, customers coming in and out for a cigarette and then back again for a delicious plate of meze and a hookah. This well-known place with a shabby sign between a theatre and a museum competes with a series of newly opened trendy places that offer cuisines of the world, Georgian being the current favorite. ….