Moscow’s Gorbushkin Dvor shopping mall recently signed an agreement with Microsoft “on the copyright protection of software producers,” according to a press release sent to the editors of Lenta.ru, a Russian news site.
Built on the former site of a notorious open-air black market near the city’s Gorbunov House of Culture, Gorbushkin Dvor covers an area of 60,000 square meters and is home to about 3000 shops. Gorbushkin Dvor is one of Russia’s largest trading platforms for electronics, home appliances, software, movies and music.