Moscow Duce

by Aleksandr Kolesnichenko

6 May 2010

To foreigners, he’s the mayor who bulldozed houses and wanted to hang posters of Stalin in Moscow. At home, a whiff of scandal and populism hangs about Yuri Luzhkov.

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