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 ...

MOSCOW -- It has loomed near Red Square since the '60s, a despised modernist hulk crouching on the Moscow River and clashing with the classic architecture of old Moscow. Now, the 2,717-room Hotel R… ...

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 ...

Moscow residents are not so sure – the word ‘modern’ no longer inspires automatic confidence in these parts. In the phone-in programme, 72% of more than 2400 callers said the hotel should stay.

Moscow's huge Hotel Rossiya, near St. Basil's Cathedral on Red Square, will be razed to make way for a "multifunctional complex," part of the city's current construction frenzy.

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 ...

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 ...