Blog 1gatta-felice: "Suzdal was waiting for the arrival of the emperor..."

“At the beginning of November, miserable houses in Suzdal were wrapped in banners. Not only facades were painted on the banners, but also flower pots, cats and even green foliage of trees. (Why weren’t they depicted the happy faces of Suzdal residents in the windows?).
It’s not even worth talking about such banal preparations as painting fences and repairing roads...

All this fuss was carried out in anticipation of the visit of Putin, who was supposed to arrive on November 7-8 to participate in the all-Russian get-together of heads of local government."