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    'Much nicer than expected': World Cup fans size up modern Moscow

    Russian capital has changed perhaps more than any other European city in recent years
    by Shaun Walker in Moscow Jun 13, 2018 3 minutes
    MOSCOW, RUSSIA JUNE 09: The fans arrive in Moscow before the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia in Moscow, Russia on June, 2018. The FIFA World Cup 2018 will take place in Russia from 14 June until 15 July 2018 (Photo by Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

    On Tuesday as Moscow was bathed in warm sunshine, the streets around Red Square gave a hint as to what is in store over the next few weeks as the World Cup comes to town.

    A dozen flag-waving Moroccans walked through the cavernous interiors of the GUM department store, singing in perfect harmony; a Russian family posed for photographs with a quartet of Mexicans in oversized sombreros behind the domes of St Basil’s Cathedral; and three Peruvians clad in their team’s colours joined

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