The Cruel Solution to ‘Beautify’ a Historic Russian City
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Nizhny Novgorod is turning 800 this year, but in a strange twist, officials have decided that in order to gussy her up they need to destroy her historic buildings.
NIZHNY NOVGOROD—The Volga River was asleep under a thick blanket of snow, the endless forest on the far side also frosted in silver. On a recent weekend, figures of fishermen, each perched by their holes in the ice, looked like black birds from the top of the river’s right bank....
