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Shooting is largest loss of life in a terrorist assault in Russia in at least a decade
Mikhail Mishustin reveals diagnosis as cases in country top 100,000
Cinemas and nightclubs ordered to close after mayor of Moscow challenges Kremlin’s stance
Easy poll win for Sergei Sobyanin will show strength of president’s political machine
Opposition leader Navalny hopes protests will help challenge Putin ahead of elections
Residents upset by mayor’s ambitious scheme to replace 10 per cent of housing stock
Mayor plans to complete massive street programme by 2018
The continent’s cities continue to struggle with the integration of the ancient and modern, and with migration-related ethnic tensions
The opposition can no longer be dismissed as irrelevant
It is not our business to pick sides in Russia’s political battles, writes Anatol Lieven
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