Moscow
Is there a city whose riche are more nouveau? This capital of superlatives has the world's highest cost of living; Europe's tallest skyscraper, the new, 889-foot Naberezhnaya Tower; and plans for the world's biggest building (27 million square feet). Alas, corruption thrives in Russia. But so does art -- fine private galleries such as the Yekaterina Cultural Foundation are opening.
Image: Tourists at the Red Square in Moscow. | Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images
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