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Russian Black Marketers Stock Up on Tourist Trade
In Moscow a growing ring of young opportunists preys on Western visitors, buying up inexpensive goods for the underground market. They target books magazines sex and politics items like sun glasses cigarettes shoes and Western money. Foreign papers cost rubles and banned titles circulate through discreet networks, with slang sellers known as farsovshchiki handling exchanges.
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