Planned Tower Splits Venerable Russian City
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ST. PETERSBURG -- Twisting as it rises 77 stories, the planned office development known as Gazprom City is testament to the muscle of Russia's richest company. A flickering gas flame captured in soaring glass, the design is also an ode to the country's energy-driven boom.
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Manhattan's tower of steam is just one more dramatic example of the cost of letting urban infrastructure deteriorate
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NOVOIMERETINSKAYA BUKHTA, Russia  - The Russian city of Sochi can relish its victory in the race to host the 2014 Winter Olympics but some local residents fear for their homes ahead of large-scale construction work.
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Russia&#39;s Svobodny space centre, used in recent years to launch US and Israeli satellites, will be shut down Russian media reported on Wednesday.
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There are no bodies here &#151; just rusting chunks of steel twisted like ribbons, crushed cars and burned-out elevator motors. Off a service road at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a hangar that once housed Tower Air is now a gigantic graveyard for what's left of the twin towers.
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An international design competition for a new tower in St. Petersburg has drawn protests from critics who say the project will kill the city.
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ON RUINED Minutka Square in the south of Grozny, a large multi-coloured poster covers the entire side of a five-storey building. It shows Russian president Vladimir Putin shaking hands with Chechnyaâs interior
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MOSCOW I celebrated this July 4 at the rooftop bar of the opulent new Ritz-Carlton hotel here, taking in the breathtaking views of the gilded domes of the Kremlin, where Soviet leaders plotted their war against American economic and military power. Across a skyline drenched by the late-setting sun,...
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Moscow plans to erect a new statue of  Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, returning his once-ubiquitous  image to its streets after an absence of four decades, a top  city official said Wednesday.
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Plans to build the Freedom Tower and   three other skyscrapers at Ground Zero were formally approved   on Thursday in a deal that would see the former World Trade   Center site rebuilt by 2012.
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The Kremlin's strategy is beginning to take shape.
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The events in Ukraine have revealed serious problems in relations between Russia and the European Union. It has become obvious that declarations about building a single European home, about unified spaces
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Federal and state officials have agreed to rent half of the Freedom Tower when it opens in about five years at the World Trade Center site &#151; sealing one part of an elaborate deal that would, if finalized, divide control of what to build there.
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ROSKILDE, Denmark  - A ship carrying the remains   of the mother of Russia's last tsar set sail on Saturday from   Denmark for Russia, where they will be laid to rest next to her   late husband in accordance with her wishes.
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A fire has broken out in Moscow's Ostankino TV tower, one of Europe's tallest buildings, officials said.
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Architect Shigeru Ban doesn't settle when it comes to bringing the outside in. The two-layer facade on his Metal Shutter Houses, a condo building planned for New York's Chelsea district, will let residents become one with the city.
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The building that will replace the fallen World Trade Center towers is fraught with symbolism -- and reinforced as hell.