The city of Moscow is considering putting a shopping mall where a famous statue of Pushkin now sits. “If the city government gets its way, a four-storey shopping mall and traffic tunnel will soon be built on the square where Pushkin stands on his pedestal. PamPush – as the monument to the author is affectionately known to Muscovites – will survive, but protesters against the development warn that his square will be ruined. ‘Red Square may be the heart of the city, but Pushkinskaya is its soul’.”