As economic gloom settles over Moscow, parts of the Russian capital have become Potemkin villages.
The most splendid of these still prosperous looking facades is Moscow City, a shiny $14 billion forest of glass and steel skyscrapers that includes four of Europe’s five tallest buildings with the tallest building of all still under construction.
The idea, which now seems like a bad joke, was that Russia was to join London, New York and Hong Kong as a global financial centre.
Long before Vladimir Putin seized Crimea, causing the West to impose economic sanctions, and long before the price of oil collapsed, accelerating the …read more
Source: National Newswatch
