Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog at the Echo Moskvi website, September 2, 2013

“Kafka has never been to Moscow, you mix him up with Feuchtwanger!” You will say in a snobbish manner. But you will be completely wrong.

Kafka has settled in Moscow for a long time and became more resolute of his decision after Sergei Sobyanin became Mayor of Moscow.

Do you need proofs? You are welcome.

The residents of the Tagansky district addressed to me as the extension of the roadway between Mezhdunarodnaya and Novorogozhskaya Streets takes place. According to the plan, there will be a four-lane road by November.

Instead of planting more trees in the square garden the authorities will turn it into a road. What for?

The project has no connection with solving  the traffic jams problem. There aren’t many cars in this part of the city.

Then why should the authorities broaden the road?

I went to the workers’ room and found out that the road was broadened so that make a better drive to the so-called “public garages”[considered to be cheap to buy by the Moscow government, however quite expensive for ordinary people].

One can form the idea of the garage construction scale seeing one of them.

There are three more of the same size

It could have been okay, but all the buildings are empty: there are from 10 to 15 cars in each building.

The residents are outraged with the fact that the construction started without the public hearings

The fact that the road to the garages will be widened doesn’t increase the sale of the garages.

First of all the authorities built the garages that no one wants in the scarce territory of Moscow’s Central Administrative District. Now they persistently widen the road that no one wants as well!

Moscow’s officials’ hectic pursuit of money  can overcome Kafka’s most bold ideas.

In addition to the excursion route “Stolen Moscow” [Sergei Mitrokhin’s blog] there should be one more route called “Absurd Moscow”. Or maybe “Kafka’s Moscow”?