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Moscow seeks a ‘sense of normal’ amid Ukraine conflict
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MOSCOW, 24 August 2022, (TON): At Moscow’s sprawling Izmailovsky outdoor souvenir market, shoppers can find cups and T-shirts commemorating Russia’s deployment of troops into Ukraine, but from the 2014 annexation of the Crimean Peninsula.
There’s nothing about the special military operation that began six months ago.
Throughout the capital, there are few overt sign that Russia is engaged in the worst fighting in Europe since World War II. Displays of the letter “Z”, which initially spread as an icon of the fight, replicating the insignia painted on Russian military vehicles are hardly seen.
There are only some scattered posters on bus shelters, showing the impassive face of one soldier or another and the words, “Glory to the heroes of Russia.”
The posters give no clue as to what the man did, or where he did it.
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