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		 The Kremlin is at the heart of Moscow, and serves as a center of religious as well as secular power. My local guide took me there on my one day off for a real Russian experience.  | 
	
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		 The Kremlin Gate  
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		 Red Square  
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		 State department store GUM faces onto the square  
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		 Kremlin tower  
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		 Official building  
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		 The Czar Cannon, built in 1586, weighs 85,000 pounds  
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		 Bell tower  
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		 Cathedral door  
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		 'His holiness patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and all Russia' departs a service  
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		 The eternal flame on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier  
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		 What's Russian for "cheese"?  
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