A question for the residents of Sochi: The city of Sochi is the national champion in love for the prime minister. While most of our vast motherland remains in a kind of comatose stupor — as long as we’re fed, that’s fine — in Sochi, over the summer and into September, visits by the august personage become so exhausting that voters curse the master on every street corner. The layout of this resort city is absolutely unsuited to visits by exalted dignitaries. In Sochi there are only two through roads: Kurortny Prospekt, used mainly by public transport — minibuses and buses — and Ordzhonikidze Prospekt, which carries more private cars. On one side of these main roads is the sea, on the other the mountains. There is, of course, a bypass road, but it can only be used to go around the city; you can’t get off it anywhere you actually need to go. Every year, the international Kuban investment forum sets up its rather unaesthetic bivouac on the strip of land from the Sochi embankment to the Winter Theater. Ordzhonikidze Prospekt — the first of the city’s two transport arteries — runs parallel to the embankment just behind the Winter Theater. For the sake of the forum, this avenue is closed completely. Local residents’ cars, even though two arteries are already not enough for them, are diverted onto Kurortny Prospekt. And Kurortny comes to a total standstill. But even that isn’t enough: when Vladimir Putin is traveling — to the forum, from the forum, out to lunch at the Blue Sea restaurant, off to dinner somewhere unknown, for a boat ride, to sleep at the Riviera residence, to wake up at the Riviera residence — Kurortny Prospekt is closed too. And that’s when the genocide begins. http://www.gazeta.ru/lifestyle/bozhena/3774985.shtml Is this really true?