The Echo website has finally started posting transcripts of my Urban Planning Chronicles. So far, there’s only one up. But more will be added to the series. I don’t know about you, but personally I’d give a lot to catch even a glimpse of the silent scene that must have descended on Moscow City Hall after news reached its walls that the Presidium of the Supreme Arbitration Court had, after all, overturned the results of the tender for demolishing the Rossiya Hotel and redeveloping Zaryadye. I’m sure it was every bit as good as something out of Gogol. You can just picture a pale Vladimir Resin rising from his chair and staring in bewilderment at Moscow Mayor press secretary Sergei Tsoi, who has closed his eyes and is frantically trying to figure out how to comment on the news. Iosif Ordzhonikidze, who had just been about to tell Yuri Roslyak an off-color joke, gets stuck on the line about the husband coming home from a business trip. And finally, the mayor himself, who (more)