Cosmopolitan no more: Russians feel sting of cultural and economic rift
by Pjotr Sauer from on (#5ZF8D)
Magazines, production lines and consumer choices suffer as isolation from the west bites
A trip to the mall in Russia is a different experience today than it was just a few short months ago.
When I had my first child, there was all this choice. Mothercare, Zara, you name it," said Evgenia Marsheva, a 33-year-old architect. But when she went shopping in Moscow this month for her newborn, many of those large retail brands had been shuttered.
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