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Foreign Firms Designing Expanded Moscow

By The Moscow Times

Sep. 6, 2012

France's Antoine Grumbach et Associes has won a tender to prepare a plan for the development of Moscow's recently annexed territories, while U.S. based Urban Design Associates will design a government compound in the area, Kommersant reported Thursday.

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