12/87Number of U.S. cities and towns named Santa Claus: 3
7/88Percentage of all ice cream consumed by Muscovites that is vanilla: 95
7/89Percentage of Muscovites who say that “average people don’t have any say about what the government does”: 43
Percentage of New Yorkers who say this: 52
4/90Number of months the 4 managers of the Moscow McDonald’s attended the Canadian Institute of Hamburgerology: 9
8/90Ratio of the average office rent in Moscow’s business district to the rent in midtown Manhattan, per square foot: 2:1
12/91Number of pizzas Moscow’s Pizza Hut delivered to the Russian parliament building during the Soviet coup: 260
1/92Number of members of the Cossacks, a Moscow motorcycle gang: 8
Number of motorcycles they own: 1
11/92Price of an eight-week course in striptease at Moscow’s Taif School of Erotic Dance, in rubles: 3,000
6/92Number of Alcoholics Anonymous groups formed in Moscow since 1987: 24
7/93Number of current and former Russian Army officers enrolled in Moscow’s East-West School of Business: 200
2/94Number of animals a Moscow circus left on a Japanese dock in 1992 to make room on its ship for newly bought cars: 93
8/95Number of Russians injured on escalators in the Moscow Metro last year who were drunk at the time: 84
1/98Number of hours a Moscow hotel flew a Microsoft flag within view of Red Square last fall when Bill Gates visited: 36
Number of lunches Gates ate in Moscow that were not from McDonald’s: 0
1/98Rolls of toilet paper received in lieu of an annual bonus last fall by each worker at a Moscow clock factory: 150
11/98Number of Moscow’s major newspapers that mentioned last August’s Clinton/Yeltsin summit the day before it began: 0
Number of U.S. households that chose professional wrestling over the President ‘s televised apology that month: 6,379,000
2/03Percentage of Moscow residents who say that city residents from Chechnya or the rest of the Caucasus should be expelled: 25