Ух. Нью-Йорк Таймс о путешествии из Петербурга в Москву. - × × ×

“So why is this highway so antiquated? A new toll road, the M11, will not be fully open until 2018, at which point Mr. Putin will have been in charge for 18 years. ¶ Asked about the M10 during an interview last year, Mr. Putin’s press secretary, Dmitri S. Peskov, answered by tracing, in order of urgency, the challenges that Mr. Putin faced in his first and second presidential terms. ¶ He brought Russia’s oligarchs to heel. He reclaimed authority over the security services. He eliminated the popular election of governors. He wrested television back from private hands. He raised pensions and paid off Russia’s foreign debt. By the time Mr. Peskov mentioned the staggering decline of Brezhnev-era infrastructure, his explanation had gone on for 28 sentences. ¶ “Certainly,” he concluded, “in these circumstances it was impossible to think about a road between Moscow and St. Petersburg.” - × × ×

...причём особенно интересна форма подачи. - 9000