Moscow Culture Minister Sergei Kapkov is behind everything that is new and trendy in today's Moscow: the new Gorky Park and other public spaces, the new pedestrian zones, new theaters, including the swanky Gogol Center, and more. These projects are all united in bringing a chic European aesthetic to the Russian capital, largely by copying the latest Western trends in urban planning, design and management.?
Moscow's transformation has divided the public into those who cannot imagine how they survived before it and those who see the metamorphosis as an attempt to stifle dissent by offering politically conscious Russians a superficial Western-looking alternative.?
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Q&A: Moscow's Hipster Culture Minister Defies Russia's Isolation
Q&A: Moscow's Hipster Culture Minister Defies Russia's Isolation