By Rosalba Castelletti (La Repubblica)
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A couple pose for a selfie on the suspension bridge over the Moskva River in the brand new Zariadie Park, behind St. Basil's Church.
The warm spring sun, a prelude to summer, has awakened Moscow, a capital that now rivals its western cousins.
Families with pushchairs frolic along the river, children chase each other in the fountains, young people take rides on scooters, while the sidewalks are full of café terraces.
But behind the veneer of apparent normality, the scars left open by the first hundred days of the "special military operation" in Ukraine are increasingly visible.
Stoleshnikov Pereulok, Moscow's 5th avenue, is almost deserted since the vast majority of fashion houses have closed.
The Christian Dior, Fendi and Louis Vuitton windows have given way to black hangings.
Even the aisles of the Gum department store, whose imposing façade dominates the Place…
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