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Moscow

Published on
July 19, 2002
Last updated
May 22, 2015

A student-run cafe called Putin, in the Urals industrial city of Chelyabinsk, was forced to change its name after officials complained that the Russian president had not been asked for permission. The cafe has since reopened as Cafe Pepsi.

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