The drive from Minsk to the MKAD (Moscow Ring Road) took not much longer than the drive along the MKAD from Minskoye Highway to Brateyevo. And this morning it still took me two hours to get to the office. So what, have they canceled our usual lighter summer traffic jams now? While I was standing there, I amused myself by wondering: would I be able to hit the gas if under my wheels there lay Y. M. Luzhkov (Yuri Luzhkov, former mayor of Moscow), tied up, covered in tar and rolled in feathers, along with his billionaire wife Baturina (Yelena Baturina) and his billionaire brother-in-law Yevtushenkov? I came to the conclusion that I would. Then put it in reverse, and once more. Then again. And again. Then back up once more and spin around on the spot. And then one more time.