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Russia's capital city is to buy a foreign ski hotel. The city of Moscow will purchase the 120-bed Persenk Hotel in Pamporovo, the booming Bulgarian ski resort. A spokesman for the district city of Smolyan declined to reveal the price.
This report from Bulgarian New Network.
Now, would anyone care to guess why a city authority would buy a ski hotel? (I'll try to find the answer!)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Does Putin ski ? I think he does so maybe he want's to go somewhere new 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Local Authorities are so "small beer". A certain chairman (footy not party) that springs to mind would just have bought the resort. 
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In France it's fairly common (I think) for local authorities from areas where there's no skiing to buy cheap hotels/accomodation in ski resorts for use by either: (a) people who couldn't otherwise afford a skiing holiday; (b) council members on a jolly.
The city of Nice used to owned a place in our area (which, strangely, was sold to some Russians but has since been sold on) and Grasse owns a property there.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Following on from Ben's point, one thing that's creditable about this story is that it's reportable ... thanks to a more open media in Eastern Europe. In the bad old days, things like this probably happened without public accountability.
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ben wright, It happens in Switzerland as well, one hotel in Wengen is owned by I think it's the Post Office or the Rail Workers Union, I think the members get a special rate if they want to stay there
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