To motivate the construction workers, and remind them that time is running out, the office of the Moscow mayor created Soviet-style posters and put them around the construction site.

MOSCOW — Posters of Josef Stalin may be put up in Moscow for the first time in decades as part of the May 9 observance of Victory Day – the annual celebration of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

A view of the damaged building is seen in the “Moscow City” business district after a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia, early Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023.

Next to the sprawling U.S. Embassy and just off the ill-named Garden Ring, the clogged 12-lane highway that encircles Moscow's city center, stands a little slice of utopia. Paradise, however, has ...