No picnickers and no gays.Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov wants to build a golf course in a picturesque picturesque, term used in 18th-century England to refer to a landscape that looked as if it had come out of an academic painting. Used as derogatory criticism of such painting, the picturesque was considered pretty rather than beautiful. corner of the Russian Russian associated in some way with Russia. Russian blue a breed of cats with short, dense, silver-tipped blue-colored coat and vivid green eyes. capital, but it's not because he's a fan of the sport. It's because he wants to protect the area from gays. "In general, golf courses are organized protection of the environment," Luzhkov said during a city government meeting shown on state-run Rossiya television April 12. "In this case there would be no barbecues, no picnics, no gays--nothing like that, because there would be a structure that would take responsibility for this facility." The discussion stemmed stemmed adj. 1. Having the stems removed. 2. Provided with a stem or a specific type of stem. Often used in combination: stemmed goblets; long-stemmed roses. from a plan to develop part of northwestern Moscow along the city's main river and protect the area's waterside environment. Moscow, where Luzhkov has been mayor since 1992, is seeking to host the 2012 Olympics Olympics Sports medicine An international competition among (traditionally) nonprofessional athletes trained in a particular summer or winter sport, which is held every 4 yrs in a selected city. See Paralympics, Special Olympics, World Medical Games. . |
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