MOSCOW -- It has loomed near Red Square since the 1960s, a despised modernist hulk crouching on the Moscow River and clashing with the classic architecture of old Moscow. Now, the 2,717-room Hotel ...

The mayor of Moscow has ordered the demolition of the Rossiya (Russia) Hotel, a giant concrete box built beside the Kremlin in Soviet times. The hotel, the world's biggest when it was built in the ...

You’ll find few people shedding tears for the destruction of the Hotel Rossiya, a dour, hulking behemoth that glowers at St. Basil’s Cathedral and lurks near the Kremlin like a bad Cold War ...

Now, the 2,717-room Hotel Rossiya is to be torn down as ordered last week by Mayor Yuri Luzhkov -- the latest Soviet landmark to fall in a capitalism-fueled construction frenzy that is changing ...

But the 2717-room Hotel Rossiya is the latest Communist landmark to fall in a capitalism-fuelled frenzy of construction fast changing the face of the Russian capital. Mayor Yuri Luzhkov last week ...

MOSCOW -- Following in the ill-fated footsteps of other Soviet-era iconic structures across eastern Europe, the enormous and infamous Rossiya, or Russia, Hotel next to the Kremlin looks set for ...

To the editor: The first thing that came to mind as I read about the proposed 4,500-resident mega-dorm at UC Santa Barbara was my own experience with the infamous Rossiya Hotel near Red Square in ...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has a new plan for a huge central Moscow lot that has been vacant since a sprawling Soviet-era hotel was razed: a park.

MOSCOW -- For decades, pilgrims to Red Square have first passed in the shadow of the stolid Moskva hotel and the elegant Manezh exhibition hall. Once they made it across the square's cobblestoned ...