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Moscow: clean city, cleansed city

Vedomosti • 2018-05-24

The column uses urban cleanliness as a political metaphor for controlled public space. Klishin contrasts aesthetic order with social exclusion and argues that visible improvement can coexist with narrowed civic participation and managed dissent.

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