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For hundreds of years, the majestic Moscow Kremlin walls were an architectural constant of Russia – they resisted invaders, fires, floods -

For hundreds of years, the majestic Moscow Kremlin walls were an architectural constant of Russia – they resisted invaders, fires, floods -

Many Germans presided over the beginnings of Russian medicine. Throughout history, doctors from German lands have brought their skills, built medical...

One December evening in the late ’90s, I met a friend in a Moscow restaurant. I drank two zero-alcohol beers that night—an eccentric posture, in a Russian-Georgian restaurant—and then drove back to my borrowed flat in a car lent to me by my successor as the FT’s Moscow Correspondent. In Russia, no alcohol is permitted at all when driving—a law fashioned, it would seem, to allow the city’s GAI (Gosurdarstvennaya Aftomobilnaya Inspektsiya, or state traffic police) to supplement their...