INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Moscow has actually constructed a real estate complex for foreign diplomats and reporters, state media reported Monday, in a move similar to
the Soviet practice of designating living and working quarters for expats.The task sprang up as Russia discovers itself internationally
separated and under extraordinary Western sanctions for releasing a full-blown invasion of neighboring Ukraine last year
This complex is developed as a concern to accommodate employees of diplomatic missions, worldwide organizations, consular offices and
foreign media correspondents, GlavUpDK, the business that services foreign diplomatic and corporate workplaces, informed the state-run RIA
Novosti news agency.The nine-story structure is located in southwestern Moscows so-called embassy row, according to GlavUpDK, a commercial
subsidiary of the Russian Foreign Ministry
The structure has apartment or condos and offices for lease [with] three-level underground parking, GlavUpDK said, adding that strategies
are also underway to open a kindergarten.The company said the 112-apartment complex on Mosfilmovskaya Ulitsa was styled after two comparable
diplomatic substances in central and northwestern Moscow.GlavUpDK, which represents the Main Administration for Service to the Diplomatic
Corps, said the complicated neared completion in March 2022 and got main permission in late December.Photos of the project showed its
windows neglecting the cluster of high-rise buildings in western Moscows vast financial district.In the Soviet age, reporters and diplomats
from capitalist nations were designated living and working quarters at a Stalin-era apartment building on Sadovaya-Samotechnaya Ulitsa
Expats typically referred to the heavily surveilled luxury apartment, which is still supervised by GlavUpDK, as Sad Sam
