Soviet Union

Historic Hotel Moskva with interesting past reopened as Four Seasons Hotel Moscow

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The Four Seasons has reopened a historic landmark in Moscow. Four Seasons Hotel Moscow is the latest luxury hotel to make itself at home in Moscow’s central area. “After years of meticulous planning, the old Hotel Moskva is now reborn as Four Seasons Hotel Moscow with fashion forward style and modern comforts on Manezhnaya Square,” says … Read more

We sit starving amidst our gold

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In the British Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, the world’s most prestigious art festival, UK artist Jeremy Deller has provoked controversy and ignited social debate by presenting an installation of the Wende Museum‘s significant collection of early post-Soviet stock vouchers, privatization certificates, and Ponzi scheme coupons that dominated alternative currencies of the early 1990s … Read more