Moscow is much brighter than it seems.

Knight Ridder/Tribune | September 12, 2006 | Copyright

Byline: Yury Filippov

MOSCOW _ Some Western rating agencies claim that in 2006 Moscow has become the most expensive city in the world.

Indeed, Moscow prices are stunning, especially downtown, in expensive boutiques and brand name shops. Foreigners (including the rating agencies' employees) find it the hardest of all. This may be why the number of foreign tourists coming to Moscow went down by 10 percent in 2005 as compared with 2004. A tourist from Western Europe or the United States will have to pay a great deal for a visa and hotel. Foreigners officially ...

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