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Kremlin fires defiant Moscow mayor after 18 years (AP)

September 28th, 2010

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov reacts during the Unesco's early childhood care conference in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Sept. 27, 2010. Yuri Luzhkov, who has been Moscow's mayor for the last 18 years, is back from his vacation and said he wouldn't resign despite a widely reported public power struggle with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)AP - Russia’s president fired defiant Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov on Tuesday, ousting the man who gave the crumbling capital a glamorous facelift but was maligned for his wife’s chokehold on construction projects and for staying on vacation while forest fires choked his city.


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