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An Insider’s Guide to Moscow for Mr. Obama

07 July 2009

By Kevin O'Flynn

Tourists who choose to go on organized tours to Moscow always regret it in the end. You may lodge in a nice hotel, say a whole floor in the Ritz-Carlton, and get to bring your own chef and bodyguards, but you are still restricted to seeing the city through the tinted windows of your limousine.

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