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Minsk Shopping intro
Minsk - a shoppers' paradise? Hardly. The consumer market is mostly confined to cheap imports and domestically produced goods, as well as a few overpriced, luxury foreign items that come here by way of Moscow. Still, the average souvenir hunter or grocery shopper won't come away empty handed. Here's some guidance.
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If you're curious as to what Soviet chocolate was like, shop here. A wide variety of big, chunky chocolate treats wrapped in strangely alluring wrappers with motifs like rockets, skyscrapers, Belarussian folklore and maybe a red star or two. Some [...]
Actually, the linen fabric selection is usually excellent. Much of the linens are first-class quality and very cheap compared to what you might buy in the West. When I went there the color selection was very wide, with only orange shades missing. [...]