All was impossibly quiet on Kutuzovskiy prospect around 3pm last Saturday - a highly unusual sign on an 8 lane highway, one of Moscow's busiest. Not a creature was stirring. Since we were waiting to catch a bus to Victory Park, we had a chance to wait it out and see what was happening. We saw that the police had stopped all traffic in both directions on 2 major highways; therefore we knew something important was going on.
About 20 minutes later it all came to light... Russian President Dimitri Medvedev in his Mercedes Maybach stretch limi and his motorcade/entourage of about 20 black German cars came barreling through at about 90 mph, heading from the Kremlin in the direction of his ritzy Rublovka home.
Bad news: the tens of thousands stuck in the backup on Kutuzovskiy and Rublevskoye for 30++ minutes.
Good news: the President was actually working on a Saturday!
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