It's hard to imagine something more ridiculous than ballet entrecha in the club of a machine-building plant? The former ballerina of the Moscow theater organized a dance ensemble in the provincial working-class outskirts and for many years turned ordinary children into classy dancers.

In July 2009, the name of the small town of Pikalevo was recognized by all the inhabitants of Russia, driven to despair, the townspeople blocked the federal highway. Two days later, Prime Minister Putin arrived in the city and helped resolve the crisis. What was the cause of the conflict, how events developed and what is happening in Pikalevo two years later, the people of Pikalevo themselves tell.