Putin and everything, everything, everything
On October 8, the St. Petersburg elite - honorary citizens, deputies, Senator Lyudmila Narusova and others - gathered at the Tauride Palace to listen to a “musical compliment to Vladimir Putin” and watch a photo exhibition dedicated to the hero of the day. Dozens of photographs - “Putin and the Church”, “Putin and Sobchak”, “Putin and Heads of Foreign States”, “Putin and... Pigs” - dazzled my eyes. Neither Governor Georgy Poltavchenko nor the birthday boy himself were seen in the palace.