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# Near the Monument to Bulat Okudzhava on the Old Arbat, Poor Mu-Mu Was Slaughtered About Half a Year Ago; Someone Suddenly Bought Up the Premises and Set Up the Election Headquarters of the Party of Growth There
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/okolo-pamiatnika-bulatu-okudzhave-na-starom-arbate-gde-to-polgoda-nazad-zarezali-bednuiu-mu-mu-nekto-vnezapno-vykupil-eto-pomeshchenie-i-organizoval-tam-predvybornyi-shtab-partii-rosta/
- Published: 2021-11-03T15:35:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:40:07.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Moscow, Observations, Society, Humour

Near the monument to Bulat Okudzhava on the Old Arbat, about half a year ago,  
poor Mu-Mu was slaughtered; someone suddenly bought up the premises and set up there the election headquarters of the Party of Growth. So what is one to do with such considerable floor space when one has become head of PAU, "the only champagne in Russia"? Quite right! Open a Black Sea cuisine restaurant. Every success in the undertaking! Should one expect the new establishment's margins to exceed the result of this space's previous resident in the Duma elections, a mere 0.22%?

Be that as it may, Okudzhava now stands abashed between no fewer than three seas: the Black at his right hand, the Bosphorus at his left, and the Caspian right before his face. I would not recommend that Bulat Shalvovich dine in any of these maritime establishments

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