Moscow's Intourist Hotel closed its doors last month, after city authorities decided to demolish the Soviet-era building and replace it with a modern five-star hotel. Many Muscovites welcome the ...

MOSCOW, Russia --Workers have started to tear down Moscow's Intourist Hotel -- a Brezhnev-era landmark and the setting of countless spy novels -- to make space for a western five-star replacement.

Work has begun in Moscow on dismantling one of the city's most famous landmarks - the Intourist Hotel. The concrete and glass tower block in the centre of town was also a scene of Cold War intrigue.

One of the landmark buildings of the Soviet era, Moscow's Intourist Hotel, is closing down on Tuesday ahead of scheduled demolition. The 20-storey Intourist, which occupies prime real estate in the ...

Black marketeers traded banned goods in them, their lobbies swarmed with prostitutes and KGB agents lurked in their rooms, while most Russian citizens were not even allowed into them. Still, these ...