BY GUM, IT'S CHANGED.Byline: Fiona Phillips Fiona Phillips (born 1 January 1961, Canterbury) is a journalist, broadcaster and television presenter. After leaving the University of Birmingham with a B.A. (Hons) in English she started her career in independent radio working for local stations County Sound, Hereward Radio and THE Russians we met were the most straightforward people - you got the feeling they'd seen it all before, and nothing could faze them. Former Chelsea ace Graeme Le Saux Graeme Pierre Le Saux (born October 17 1968 in Jersey) is a retired English footballer who played as a left back, although he sometimes played in midfield or on the left wing. told me how much change he's noticed in Moscow over 15 years, nowhere more than in Gum, the former state department store which occupies the whole of one side of Red Square. "There was never anything worth buying there," he said. From nothing worth buying to nothing many can afford to buy on the average monthly wage of pounds 300, Gum is now home to big-name, big-price stores, all totally useless to the majority of Muscovites Muscovites may refer to:
The big names have muscled in, but their gain means Moscow has almost lost its uniqueness. |
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