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RICK WIANECKI always wanted to go to Moscow, but Red Square was cordoned off when he finally got there last June. He soon saw why: “There was this little demonstration going on, with this ragamuffin collection working their way counter-clockwise around the perimeter.” The police said they were protesting low pension payments for the elderly. Wianecki, an insurance company attorney from Rossmoor, took the picture with his Nikon 8800. To him, the image encapsulates the gulf between those who have benefited from Russia’s new economy and those who have been left behind.
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