IT OFTEN SEEMS that nobody survives for long in the dog-eat-dog world of modern Russian politics. Nobody, it seemed, except Yury Mikhaylovich Luzhkov, the septuagenarian mayor of Moscow, who for the best part of almost two decades oversaw the running of the Russian capital and was effectively the third most important political figure in Russia after president Dmitry Medvedev and evergreen prime minister Vladimir Putin. Having been in charge of Moscow’s affairs since 1992 and having easily triumphed in three mayoral elections, Luzhkov had helped engineer a vast improvement in Moscow’s economic fortunes and presided over landmark construction projects such as the MKAD outer ring road and the showcase Moscow City financial district, which is at the heart of plans for Moscow to position itself as a global financial centre.
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