Eat your heart out, Rodina

There was a lot of talk in 2005 about migrant workers and the "problem" of immigration in Russia in general. Much of the talk was stirred up by politicians practicing thinly veiled racism.

Meanwhile, as Moscow prepared to greet 2006, and Muscovites rushed around buying their last presents and final items for the holiday table, or stumbled around already in a holiday stupor, holiday flags were being raised downtown by a couple of the non-Russians who keep the city functioning.


Tverskaya, near the Museum of Contemporary History, December 31, 3:02pm.


Pushkin Square, the corner of Tverskaya and Bolshaya Bronnaya, December 31, 2:52pm.