<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/mary_dejevsky/" target="_blanK">Mary Dejevsky: Russia Notebook: Holiday Inns, baby booms, chess champions</a>

Sunday 14 September 2008 00:00 BST

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OUR GROUP stayed at a Holiday Inn on the northern outskirts of Moscow, which was convenient for the airport that some participants flew into and out of, but not convenient for much else.

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