MOSCOW: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has switched to using a helicopter rather than a car for his trip to work from his suburban residence and other travel around Moscow, his spokeswoman said yesterday.
The move appears to be a bid by the premier, who lives in his suburban Gorki residence west of Moscow, to placate irate drivers who are forced into massive traffic every time his long motorcade swings by. “He will always do this (take the helicopter) whenever the weather allows,” his spokeswoman Natalya Timakova told AFP. The government yesterday published pictures of the helicopter landing right outside the massive White House government headquarters in central Moscow. AFP
