A week ago on Friday, I got to school super early and decided my time was better spent going for a walk. I started out by touring the embankment; seeing lots of nice apartments and some not so nice ones. After about an hour of that, I headed back to the campus along Шпалерная Улица (Shpalernaya Ulitsa). On the left is an open square of sorts with a monument in the center. Thankfully during the bus tour, the tour guide introduced this statue as Felix Dzerzhinsky. Behind this statue is a rather run-down looking building with no obvious signage or labeling.
On that particular day, a woman happened to be taking pictures of the building, not the statue. She was also really close to the building; taking a picture and then feeling the surface or inspecting a crack in the cement. It was then that I saw two armed personnel exit the building, approach her, and escort her inside. After returning to the campus, I talked to one of the program coordinators about what just happened. As it turns out, that building is a branch office of the FSB.
I took pictures of both FSB buildings in Kazan last year...And I want a picture of that Dzerzhinsky statue.
that could be scary.
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