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Article: View from Minsk: still politically isolated on the eastern edge of Europe, the Belarus capital of Minsk is slowly coming to terms with a new world order.(view)
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- The Architectural Review
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- February 1, 2005
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'Minsk is to be turned into a European-model city where people feel comfortable, the president says.' (Pravda, 29 August 2002, Moscow)
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The rapid pace of change in the post-Communist countries of Central Europe has been closely followed in the Western media. But 13 years on from the collapse of the Soviet Union, comment on their emerging urban condition is sparse. Aside from progress reports on Luzhkov's latest projects in Moscow, news rarely reaches us of activity in any of the major cities. The Republic of Belarus is a case in point. Stiff border controls and the ...