Moscow closes flea market at Luzhniki stadium

MOSCOW, July 1 (Itar-Tass) -- As Russia is heading to host the
Football World Cup in 2018 the Moscow government will close on Friday the
flea market which operated on the territory of the biggest Luzhniki
stadium in the capital city for ten years.
"2500 stalls, 500 warehouse container premises and 340 mobile modules
will be closed," the city government said adding the vendors were offered
to move to other marketplaces in Moscow and the surrounding region.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin visited Luzhniki in April and was
indignant at the situation when the flea market did not allow sport
activities to develop. Several days later the director of Luzhniki Olympic
Complex Company resigned.
This week Sobyanin again inspected Luzhniki and ordered to reconstruct
and repair the facility which hosted Olympic Games in 1980.
Luzhniki is the second major flea market closed in Moscow of late. The
first one was Cherkizovo market in the north of the city where thousands
of Chinese nationals worked.
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