Metro city Moscow: The megacity that won’t slow down
Russian designer Constantine Konovalov and producer Natalia Moskaleva have laid out their vision for a new Moscow metro map for…
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A “Palace for the People”: the design of the Moscow metro, in pictures
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ByCould protests over waste disposal really bring down Russia’s President Putin?
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How a dam in Volgograd has almost killed off the caviar fish
Yesterday, the floodlights were turned on at the newly built Volgograd Arena for the first World Cup match to be…
ByPodcast: Glasnost
This week, we’re getting out of the British Isles and heading east. Milo Edwards is a British comedian who moved…
ByMoscow residents are rallying against the mass demolition of Soviet apartment blocks
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ByUnbuilt Moscow: the utopias that never arrived
Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour was demolished in December 1931. In its place now stands a new Cathedral of…
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