--- Wendy Lyon <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yes. And it was my visit to Russia that I had in
> mind when I wrote
> that bit about the smaller cities not having High
> Street shops.
> Godforsaken places like Samara and Togliatti -
> populations of a
> million and half a million respectively, but
> globalisation seems to
> have passed them by entirely.
>
I've never been to either place, but Yaroslavl (pop 600,000) has a McDonald's. But yeah in such provincial cities (and in Moscow for that matter) the fast food is mostly pirogi bought in a kiosk on the street. The difference is that Moscow is festooned with sushi restaurants, Italian pizzerias, TGI Fridays and so forth. I think there are at least 4 TGI Fridays in Moscow.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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