Here's something that I'd normally overlook - a "Fur Fair" ad:



But it's pasted all over the neighborhood, on what seems like every street pole, so I ended up taking a picture.

The "Fur Fair" is held at the dry cleaner's building near the Usachyovsky Market, from March 12 through March 18, the cheapest fur coats produced by the Pyatigorsk "Alef" Factory, mink, from 30,000 rubles up (at the current rate, $1,000 is something like 26,000 rubles)...

It's so mundane and yet so surreal, for some reason.