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 | | Moscow was the creation of Prince Yury Dolgoruky (Long-Armed Yury, reference to his land-grabbing reputation), and the city acted quickly to outflank its older rivals. |
 | | Later architecture of the 1960s was considerably uglier, but contemporary projects, funded by oil-boom cash, are rapidly tearing down the nastiest Soviet monsters, leaving the city looking like a huge building site in many areas and the winds of change are blowing. |
 | | The city’s long-time mayor Yuri Luzhkov is a figure of enormous controversy but, to his credit, he has entirely rebuilt the road network and city infrastructure with a steely determination that has prioritised pragmatism over prettiness in some cases. |
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