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Moscow. The Russian capital is growing at breath-taking speed. Traffic jams, noise and smog are just a few of the negative side effects. Russia-Now’s André Ballin spoke with architect Niko Rickert about Moscow’s painful metamorphosis.
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Moscow. A sustained heat wave has set the peat moors east of Moscow alight, wreathing parts of the capital in smog. Poor visibility is blamed for pileups on an arterial highway.
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Moscow. Skyscrapers where each of 60 stories revolves about its own axis are destined for Moscow and St. Petersburg. Moscow’s Mirax Group has acquired a project by the Italian architect David Fischer.
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At the end of the 19th century, Tsar Nicholas II ordered a representative building to be built on Red Square to house a department store for merchants’ wares. Right from its opening in 1893 onwards, it was regarded as an architectural marvel that captured the spirit of Russia’s rise.
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Take ten usual electronics megastores and you have an idea of the size of the Gorbushka. You can find everything here, absolutely everything that somehow needs electricity to work. CDs, DVDs and software are also for sale.
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"If you don't know the Arbat, you don't know Moscow" goes the saying. The (Old) Arbat in Moscow, with its shops, cafés and souvenir stands, is Russia's most famous pedestrian zone. The lively street to the west of the Kremlin has something for everyone.
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