Posted on 13/07/04
Modernizing jackhammers tear at heart of old Moscow
MOSCOW -- For decades, Alexei Komech considered the Stalinist Hotel Moskva, just steps from the red Kremlin walls, an eyesore that was horribly out of place on historic Revolution Square.But the daily pounding of jackhammers, as workers feverishly take the building down, now gives Mr. Komech no happiness. Suddenly, the director of Moscow's Art Research Institute finds himself defending a building he once hated, believing it had come to represent a part of the city's long and tumultuous past.
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