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Giant suitcase to leave Red Square

Giant suitcase to leave Red Square
29.11.2013 10:00
An installation in Moscow's Red Square in the form of a giant Louis Vuitton suitcase is to be dismantled, BBC reported.The suitcase, which had been due to house an exhibition about luggage produced by the luxury brand, had caused outrage among some Muscovites.Some MPs had decried the installation as trivialising a "sacred space" for the Russian state.The department store GUM, under whose auspices the case was installed, said on Wednesday that it would be removed.The decision was taken because of the negative reactions of many Muscovites, the store said in a statement, as well as the fact that the installation exceeded the "maximum parameters" permitted.The case was 9m (30ft) in height and 30m (100ft) in length.One Moscow resident, Elena Vladimirovna, told Reuters: "I came here specially to see this disgrace. I was simply outraged. Where was our government looking before?"Officials had also been quoted as criticising the installation in one of Russia's most iconic spaces, adjacent to the Kremlin and the tomb of Lenin.A spokesman for the Kremlin denied that it had given authorisation for the suitcase to be put up."The GUM [store] dealt with the permission issues. We had nothing to do with it," Viktor Khrekov told AFP.ANN.Az
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