In central Moscow, construction cranes loom over the Kremlin, as hotel and office towers rise up to accommodate Russia's newly minted companies and the flood of foreign business visitors. Downtown apartments that cost $100,000 a few years ago now cost $1 million. On weekends, shoppers by the thousands line up behind cash registers at the 150,000-square-meter Tyoply Stan suburban mall, loading up on home furnishings, televisions and cell phones. Stockholm-based Ikea, which owns the mall, reported that it received 52 million shoppers in 2005, making it the most-visited shopping center in Europe. Moscow is adding 100,000 cars to its roads every year, and the congestion is so bad that on Oct. 31, players from Russia's Spartak soccer team were forced to abandon their bus and take the subway to the stadium, arriving just in time for their Champions League match against Inter Milan. When Spartak lost, 1-0, the coach blamed the traffic....
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