Beyond Moscow, Dachas Make Way for Suburbia
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PEREDELKINO, Russia -- The unpaved, unlit roads are clogged with traffic. Getting to and from work in the center of Moscow is a 90-minute crawl each way. The schools are lousy. There are no stores within walking distance. Local health-care facilities are primitive.
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A youth movement seeks the ideological cultivation, some say indoctrination, of the first generation to come of age in post-Soviet Russia.
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Moscow city authorities plan to reduce the number of migrants working in the Russian capital.
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ZIMNITSY, Russia  - Friday is when the action happens in this isolated Russian village, six hours' drive north from Moscow along icy roads, past smoggy industrial towns and through vast pine forests.
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BEIJING -- The concrete shells of this city's rising skyscrapers hold more than the promise of being tomorrow's homes and offices -- they're already the abode of hundreds of thousands of China's migrant construction workers.
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PIMCHAKH, Russia  - Listening to enigmatic Koryak-language songs and eating traditional salmon soup and cutlets in this village, it is easy to imagine indigenous cultures still thrive on Russia's Kamchatka peninsula.
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In one of this city's relatively posh neighborhoods, there is a compound full of specialists.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 19 -- Scattered flurries teased Moscow on Tuesday afternoon with the promise of a real winter, the birthright of a city whose people take pride in trudging through snow and in ice fishing and cross-country skiing in white countryside beyond the outer beltway.
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CORONA, Calif  - Bhaviesh and Varsha Shah bought their dream home in a new development east of Los Angeles two years ago, planted flowers around an emerald lawn and picked out wicker furniture for sitting outside on cool afternoons.
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In a long-depressed Washington area, gentrification is finally taking hold.
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A study names Moscow as the most expensive place for an expat to live with London coming in at second.
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Venturing into the street is perilous for the Chechen minority here after a recent terror wave.
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NARO-FOMINSK DISTRICT, Russia -- Just after 11 on a recent Sunday morning, 73-year-old Viktor Yakubovich stepped through an iron gate in the backyard fence of his country home. He emerged into the mythic stillness and wetness of the Russian woods, which stretched out before him in a canvas of gre...
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INCHEON, South Korea  - Korean Park Jung-ja spent the first six decades of her life on wind-swept Sakhalin, the bad breaks of the Cold War making her a citizen of nowhere. Now, she has finally found a home in suburban Seoul.
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MAMONOVO, Russia -- The wooden board outside the local government building in this town of 7,000 near the Baltic Sea -- a place small enough that word travels fast and no one's business is exactly private -- might just as well advertise a community festival or a schedule for trash collection.
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Russians celebrated their Revolution Day holiday Sunday with marches and rallies in Moscow and many other cities. In contrast to monolithic displays of devotion to the Soviet state, a feature of that marked
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SHCHUCHYE, Russia, Aug. 30 -- Out of the flatlands and swamps about 100 miles from Russia's southern border, a huge gray box of concrete, brick, pipes and wires is rising, a factory that next year may begin to neutralize one of the most threatening legacies of the Cold War.