The BBC posts a photo-essay, briefly exploring the lives of the ordinary people who work in the Kremlin, day in, day out:
Viktor, a chef, misses his old leaders. “Khrushchev’s favourite dish was stinging nettle soup,” he says. “Brezhnev loved duck kebabs. Under Putin, you could never cook like that.”
That Putin. No taste. I’m convinced that the man gets by on a cabbage soup diet – otherwise known as Borscht.