Spoiler: it's not all about the Kremlin
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Unlike Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev commutes every day from his out-of-town residence Gorki-9 to the center of Moscow, as his office is in the House of the Government, also known as the "Russian White House". A paradigm of Soviet constructivism, the building suffered severe damage during the 1993 Constitutional crisis when Boris Yeltsin ordered a tank shelling of his parliament opponents.
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Russia's lower chamber of Parliament, the State Duma, is also just steps away from the Red Square and the Bolshoi Theatre, so you're unlikely to miss this Stalin-era building which in Soviet times hosted the State Planning Committee (Gosplan). The speaker of the newly elected legislative body, Vyacheslav Volodin, is considered one of Putin's key confidants.
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This man is the first contact to get the Kremlin's response to current events - Dmitry Peskov. Putin's spokesman is an employee of the Presidential Administration, which is housed in an early 20th-century building in the historic district of Kitai-Gorod.
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Russians are pretty sensitive about the ruble fluctuations, so news from the Central Bank and its chief Elvira Nabiullina are always awaited with bated breath. The institution sits in the picturesque surroundings of Neglinnaya Street in a historic, late 19th-century building remarkable for its refined bas-reliefs. //
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Russia's Constitutional Court is the only governmental body located outside Moscow. From 2007 it is housed inside one of St Petersburg's top architectural gems - the Senate and Synod Building, designed by Carlo Rossi. The Court's chairman is former Yeltsin opponent Valery Zorkin.