How Gazprom turned up the heat on the West
How Gazprom turned up the heat on the West
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The soaring concrete and glass office block thrusts towards the sky, like a rocket with its boosters strapped to its side, in downtown Moscow's Ulitsa Nametkina. After passing through security and handing over your passport to a stern-looking official, you cross a bleak windswept plaza to the tower of power. You don't need to be paranoid to feel hundreds of eyes bearing down on you. Once inside, your papers are scrutinised again and your bags put through X-ray machines. It is hard not to think of Fritz Lang's science fiction film Metropolis, with its giant tower filled with toiling workers yearning to be free. |
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News entry number 407 added on Sep 3, 2007 in the World News category.
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