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...hulking construction site on Teatralnaya square in downtown Moscow doesn't look like much. Situated on a dead-end mere blocks from the colorful spires of Red Square and the dazzling neon of Tverskaya shopping district, it's just another of the city's many renovation projects surrounded by barbed wire and covered with a thick layer of dust. But beneath rickety scaffolding, the building's towering columns and gilded fixtures tell a different story. Under renovation since 2005, this is the Bolshoi Theater, home of the fabled 231-year-old Bolshoi Ballet Company. From his cozy office...
...22nd floor of the Bagration Bridge Tower, pictured, in Kutuzovsky Prospect to enjoy the full view of the city. Take a cab to the Prado restaurant in Slavyanskaya Square for a delightful European or Asian dinner in old Moscow's downtown. Then take a postdinner walk to Tverskaya, the city's main artery, and drop into the classy and expensive Night-Flight club to mix with the most beautiful women in Moscow...
...22nd floor of the Bagration Bridge Tower in Kutuzovsky Prospect to enjoy the full view of the city. Take a cab to the Prado restaurant in Slavyanskaya Square for a delightful European or Asian dinner in old Moscow's downtown. Then take a postdinner walk to Tverskaya, the city's main artery, and drop into the classy and expensive Night-Flight club to mix with the most beautiful women in Moscow. grigori punanov, Managing Editor, Big City magazine To get a feel for this city of glamour and totalitarianism, start with the Bosko Café facing Lenin's Tomb...
Lively and colorful, vigorous and buzzing, busy day and night, Pushkin Square is Moscow's Times Square. There is hardly a Muscovite who has never dived into the long underpass, colloquially known as the Pushka, that runs under the square, across Tverskaya Street and down to three main subway lines. So when a bomb went off in the cramped concrete maze last Tuesday at the height of rush hour, it did more than just tear the flesh of the 11 people who died and the 96 who were injured. It also charred the nation's hopes...
...Tverskaya Ulitsa, Moscow's main drag, a clutch of teen smokers were underwhelmed by Gerasimenko's ban--which envisions cutting all smoking scenes from TV and films. "I've been smoking since 10," said Vadim, 15, displaying his yellowed teeth. "They can make all the restrictions in the world, but no one's going to keep Mr. Philip Morris from...