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PREVIEW: #MOSCOW: #SUMMER: Conversation with colleague Ekaterina Zolotova, Geopolitical Futures, re her walks in the parks of Moscow in the early summery heat: Indian tourists -- and what may be cricket-playing.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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PREVIEW: #MOSCOW: #SUMMER: Conversation with colleague Ekaterina Zolotova, Geopolitical Futures, re her walks in the parks of Moscow in the early summery heat: Indian tourists -- and what may be cricket-playing.

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This is John Matchler, a happy conversation with Katrina Zolotova, a correspondent and a writer for

0:07.0

geopolitical future. She's in Moscow, South Moscow. And we speak of the parks in summertime in Moscow. I was there in the summer of 85 and

0:18.1

Before Katerina was with us and she reflects about the parks now, the picnicking, the ball games,

0:25.8

the tourists.

0:26.8

At Katerina Zolotova in Moscow, summertime comes to Moscow. More of this later. Thank you. Yes indeed they do and there is a lot of

0:37.7

reconstruction and a lot of activities right now in the parks. They are playing baseball by the way not so far from my house and also it's

0:49.2

very important that in the parks you can find not only Russian people.

0:54.0

There are also Indians who enjoy their picnics and they enjoy their games.

1:00.0

This weekend I was walking in the park and I saw National Indian game, the Indian teams were playing this.

1:07.0

I don't know this game, but I will read about this.

1:10.0

You can find a lot of Chinese, so it's really interesting right now to go to parks.

1:15.0

It's a very Asian one.

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