A 100-year-old canvas can be procured at a Moscow bazaar; scrape off the old paint and voila.
As the city's war on drugs has driven narcotics bazaars off public sidewalks and into dark lobbies, narrow hallways and private rooms, undercover teams have started depending on the tactic of drawing addicts into making drug deals and then arresting them as sellers, several lawyers for Legal Aid have said.
The minarets of the Old Bazaar are screened off by ludicrously tall monuments; the international, modern buildings of the socialist era are given mock-classical dressings.
At our Realtime CrunchUp in November, Bazaar Labs showed off their iPhone application Flixup, which scans Twitter to create aggregate scores for movies.
"We need the money," said a woman who gave only her first name, Tamara, and her age, 53, as she sold hats and gloves at an outdoor bazaar just off Leninsky Prospekt, hoping to supplement the $100 a month her husband earns at a factory making hunting guns.
On his first day in Kampala a congested city of about 1.2 million—Hofmanis wandered Owino Market, a vast, umbrella-shaded bazaar far off the routes of Western tourists who pass through the city on their way to safari.
Post-Google, China's Internet market could increasingly resemble a lucrative, walled-off bazaar, experts say.
Adrianou and Kidathineon are the main drags cum tourist bazaars, but amble off down some of the smaller sidestreets for classic glimpses of daily life.
The army and Revolutionary Guards are split, and workers and the bazaar merchants have stayed off the streets.
Apparently Argentinian bazaar salesmen are passing off ferrets on steroids as toy poodles -- and people believe them.
There are other such businesses in Kabul, but none are run by women, to whom the busy bazaars are off limits not by law but by hard custom.
