European ambassadors comfortable in Moscow - mayor's office
VIENNA. Sept 9 (Interfax) - Life in the Russian capital has become comfortable for foreign diplomats, said Sergei Cheremin, the head of the Moscow Department for External Economic and International Relations.
"Just recently I met with a number of ambassadors from EU countries, and, you know, no one wants to leave Moscow. They feel so comfortable in the city: they cycle to work, walk in the parks, have no fears sending their kids to schools," Cheremin told a roundtable held in the Austrian capital on Tuesday, which was also attended by other fellow Russians.
The efforts of the Moscow authorities to improve the education and health care systems have "produced a unique effect," he said.
"We get applications from dozens of diplomatic families who want their children to go to ordinary kindergartens and attend ordinary schools," Cheremin said.
This was not the case only three years ago, he said.