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Moscow tourist information


Moscow tourist information

Moscow is the financial and political centre of Russia and the former Soviet Union, with a population of around 13 million, and covers an area of around 1080 km². One-tenth of all Russian citizens live in the metropolitan area. Moscow is in UTC+4 time zone. For many years since the break up of the Soviet Union, the economy has improved, and the modern era has brought upon a wide variety of construction projects, including the Moscow Monorail, modern architecture and newer transport systems replacing the derelict ones during the soviet times. Moscow's long time mayor, Yury Luzhkov initiated these changes during his time in office, but was fired in September 2010 for allegedly insulting the president through a scathing letter. His successor, Sergei Sobyanin, has began to gradually relax Luzhkov's mass and crazy construction plan, and a large of Luzhkov's plans have been stopped or abandoned. The new mayor has began taking steps to fight corruption, solve the traffic problems, and rebuild the already dilapidated pavements.

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