[HN Gopher] Moscow Metro launches longest metro circle line
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       Moscow Metro launches longest metro circle line
        
       Author : thriftwy
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2023-03-01 18:40 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (metrorailtoday.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (metrorailtoday.com)
        
       | brnt wrote:
       | The ride never ends!
        
       | romwell wrote:
       | Well, you gotta keep the Muscovites happy to keep them from
       | googling what the conscripts are doing in Ukraine.
       | 
       | And you've gotta keep the dictator's ego inflated with something.
       | Military victories aren't on the table, so that leaves grand
       | infrastructure projects. Nothing _too_ major, we 're talking
       | city-level upgrades here, war economy and all.
       | 
       | Finally, whatever funds the state has left need to keep flowing
       | towards people who wield the power. Not everyone's wife owns an
       | oil refinery, you know. Some people have to make do with
       | construction kickbacks.
       | 
       | Kudos to Moscow's mayor for killing three birds with one drone.
       | 
       | . . .
       | 
       | In other news, what is this zero-information panegyric doing on
       | HN?
        
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