Moscow’s equivalent to Rodeo Drive, Petrovka Boulevard glitters with every nonessential item at which a New Russian could throw a platinum card: diamond bangles, beads and breastpins, full-length sable coats, gold leaf antiques.
Gleaming taillights of metallic Bentleys light the way to the city's many malls -- from mid-market Atrium to the Barvikha Luxury Village -- which multiply as fast as the years in Putin’s political career