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Moscow is a city full of contrasts: ancient monasteries and ultra-modern monoliths stand side by side, and New Russian millionaires and poverty-stricken pensioners walk the same streets. The city is the barometer and nucleus of the changes sweeping through Russia.
People now prefer impromptu street markets to monothilic department stores, and the beautiful churches vandalised or abandoned during the Soviet era of hardline atheism are being lovingly restored. But the real flavour of this city is in its small nooks and crannies, each of them unique.
Facts at a glance
Area: 1,035 sq km
Population: 8.3 million
Country: Russia
Time Zone: GMT/UTC +3
Telephone Area Code: 095
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