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Who are you, nelegals?
What do you want ?
Are there any human rights violations in Moscow?
What is "propiska"?
Who is "limita" ?
What do Muscovites think about "propiska" and "limita"?
How can I help you?

Are there any human rights violations in Moscow?

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This term - propiska - has no equivalents in other languages, it means not simply registration, but the allowance to live in a certain city, town or village, in a certain part, house and apartment. In the Soviet Union one could not move, not change to another place without such allowance. While in the most places it was - at least in the late period - not more than a form of registration, one could hardly get such allowance for big cities, capitals of regions and republics, and, first of all, Moscow.