On December 2, 2000, a monument to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was unveiled in Limassol to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth -- with support from the Moscow government and the Association of Russian businessmen.
It stands in Limassol’s municipal garden -- a place I walk past every day.
On December 14, 2000, t.A.T.u. released their single and music video Ya Soshla S Uma, and held their first press conference in the assembly hall of Moscow school No. 1113.
In December 2000, there was a visa-free regime between Russia and Cyprus, and that year Russia’s main export abroad was hope.
On June 26, 2025 -- 24 years, 6 months, 3 weeks and 2 days later -- American singer Kelly Clarkson performed a cover of the English version of that very song, All the Things She Said, on her show.
And for all the Russian millennials like me, it sounds like a song about a future that somehow ended up in the past.
