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RT presents: Moscow Out

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Published 25 July, 2008, 09:02

Our roving reporter Ekaterina Gracheva hands you Ariadne’s thread to guide you through the labyrinth of pleasures in the city that never sleeps.

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This weekend (July 25-27) we take a journey to a typical Russian ‘dacha’ (country house), rise to the city's highest rooftops, and sip Martinis sitting next to Britain’s most wanted man – Andrey Lugovoy himself.

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