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“Great spot for relaxing with a drink.” Review of VIP Travel Caffe

If first impressions count, then this place nailed it. We arrived to find our rented apartment locked so we had to contact the owner. No Internet or phone connection but the lady in the bar was so helpful and called the owner on our behalf. He was with us in 15 minutes and we had a cold beer while we waited. So impressed. Went back several times and had great service. It is now my go to place.

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Nice coffee bar in the heart of Zagreb city.. in summer has the water sprinkler to keep you cool…. They have nice coffee options and some delicious natural Juices., my favourite orange pineapple and ginger. The toilets were clean the service was nice and polite.

I came with 2 of my friends to relax after stressful day at the college, wanted some coctail and was really offended by waitress's aproach to me because she thought I was younger than I am. Instead of politely asking me, she has had that arogant and kind of mocking me approach, so unprofessional, so impolite and I could go on. So pricey caffe bar for so poor service.

Ufff....Unpleasant waiter, dirty table, gin tonic was served as ice tonic🙄🤭... Never again.. sorry guys BR

Fast and nice service, great place to chill out and spend some time. Easy place to find. A bit noisy.

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“Great spot for relaxing with a drink.” Review of VIP Travel Caffe

If first impressions count, then this place nailed it. We arrived to find our rented apartment locked so we had to contact the owner. No Internet or phone connection but the lady in the bar was so helpful and called the owner on our behalf. He was with us in 15 minutes and we had a cold beer while we waited. So impressed. Went back several times and had great service. It is now my go to place.

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2 - 6 of 28 reviews

Nice coffee bar in the heart of Zagreb city.. in summer has the water sprinkler to keep you cool…. They have nice coffee options and some delicious natural Juices., my favourite orange pineapple and ginger. The toilets were clean the service was nice and polite.

I came with 2 of my friends to relax after stressful day at the college, wanted some coctail and was really offended by waitress's aproach to me because she thought I was younger than I am. Instead of politely asking me, she has had that arogant and kind of mocking me approach, so unprofessional, so impolite and I could go on. So pricey caffe bar for so poor service.

Ufff....Unpleasant waiter, dirty table, gin tonic was served as ice tonic🙄🤭... Never again.. sorry guys BR

Fast and nice service, great place to chill out and spend some time. Easy place to find. A bit noisy.

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The nightlife scene in Moscow is varied, and long gone are the days when the only kind of venues in operation were luxury establishments guarded by stern-looking bouncers. Although some places still enforce FC/DC, many are now leaning towards a more casual approach to entry - the recent decade has seen a rise in the number of casual bars modelled after hip urban haunts of West European capitals. Wine bars, craft breweries, bohemian cafes, indie bars, and glitzy nightclubs are all to be found in abundance, spread throughout the city's many neighbourhoods. And here are the best bars and nightclubs in Moscow, Russia:

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In order to satisfy the wishes of Moscow's well-off upper middle classes, many chic designer stores have opened their stores in Moscow. Today there is definitely a risk that tourists will return home with considerably more expensive souvenirs than fur hats and Russian "matryoshka" dolls, which are readily available throughout - a good place to start browsing for these is the souvenir market right next to the Red Square.

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The city's third and most compact airport, Vnukovo is located approximately 28 kilometres southwest of the city centre. The air hub is best reached by Aeroexpress trains departing from the Kievskaya Railway Station. Several mini-buses also run here from Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station (south end of the red line).

Phone: +7 495 937-55-55

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The largest international airport in Moscow is Sheremetyevo International Airport, located 30 kilometres from the city centre. The easiest and fastest way to reach any of Moscow's three major airports is by Aeroexpress - a fast train designated for air travelers (train departs from Belorussky Railway Station). The train ride takes 35 minutes. Another way to get here is by taxi. At the airport you can order taxis at the operator desk. You can usually book a taxi in advance through the hotel or travel agency when going to the airport. Alternatively, there are different bus routes. The buses take about 30-70 minutes depending on the route and your final destination. When traveling by car or bus, do keep in mind that rush hour traffic may sometimes be very dense, and significant delays are possible.

Address: Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow

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Domodedovo International Airport

Another large airport in Moscow is Moscow Domodedovo Airport. The airport is located 22 kilometres away from the city. You can also reach the airport from Domodedovskaya underground station by mini-bus or bus and from Paveletsky railway station by train. The train from Paveletsky railway station takes 40-50 minutes going on the Aeroexpress train, and 1 hour and 10 minutes on the commuter train. The express buses and shuttles from Domodedovskaya underground station take 25-30 minutes and leave every 15 minutes. Buses run from 6am-12am. Taxis can be ordered at the domestic and international arrivals hall. There are car rental services at the airport.

Address: Moscow Domodedovo Airport, Moscow

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Moscow has one of the world’s most beautiful underground railways which operates very efficiently. If you carry big luggage on the metro, make sure you buy a special luggage ticket. Tickets can be bought at station entrances - either at vending machines or special staffed kiosks.If you plan to use the metro multiple times during your stay, it makes sense to purchase a top-up card called "Troika".

Phone: +7 495 688 02 93

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In Moscow there are also buses, trolley buses and trams apart from the beautiful metro. Tickets can be bought from the kiosks in the street or from the driver and validated once aboard.

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In Moscow the easiest way to get a taxi is the traditional way: to stand in the street and hold out your arm. Civilian cars like to operate as taxis, it is therefore recommended to only use professional taxi services. Taxi meters are not always used, so agree on a price before travelling. English-speaking taxi services in Moscow: Welcome Taxi +7 499 922 06 74 www.welcometaxi.ru LingoTaxi: +7 495 204 21 34

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Address: Ul. Myasnitskaya 26, Moscow

Phone: +7 495 623 67 01

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Medical care may be very expensive if you do not have insurance. Hotels often have their own doctor, so start there if you need help. There are dozens of pharmacies all throughout the city, and many work 24/7. Rigla 102 www.rigla.ru 15/43 Arbat, Moscow Apteka 36,6 www.366.ru 25 str 1A Zemlyanoy val, Moscow

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While the Greek isles have always attracted hoards of boldface names hidden behind oversize sunglasses, Athens was an afterthought at best. You might deign to stay the night on your way to somewhere, anywhere, else. Now new luxury openings—most notable among them the seafront One&Only Aesthesis , which opened last November—are allowing visitors to rediscover Athenian culture in a fresh light. 

Looking for a fresh introduction to Athens? Here’s a look at the best of everything animating the pleasure-loving and optimistic scene.

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Also on the Athens Riviera in nearby Vouliagmeni, the 303-key Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens opened in 2019. It offers private beaches, sleek cruisers that whisk guests across the Saronic Gulf, and accommodations that pull from a maritime palette. Settle into one of the breezy Nafsika rooms, complete with lounger-bedecked balcony, and wake up to the Aegean Sea through expanses of floor-to-ceiling glass. Rates start at $725 per night.

But to really get to know the city, you’ll want to head back to leafy Syntagma Square, the heart of Athens. It’s home to the Hotel Grande Bretagne , part of Marriott’s Luxury Collection. This classy dowager debuted in 1874 and began swelling with foreign dignitaries during the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympic Games. Today, it still wows with 320 palatial rooms and buttled suites done up in hues of taupe and creamy yellow. Past the lobby is the stained-glass ceiling-crowned Winter Garden, just the place for postprandial live jazz. Rates start at $628 per night

For a more intimate urban experience, the Dolli is a reprieve from hectic Monastiraki Square. Most recently housing a fabric store, the neoclassical building dating from 1925 was transformed last year and now sports 46 snowy-white rooms. Opt for one looking directly onto the Acropolis, then head up to the greenery-drenched rooftop restaurant and pool for even more classically classical views. The hotel’s staggering collection of art is the vision of owner Mari Daskalantonakis, the CEO of hotel company Grecotel. The lofty lobby unites ancient ceramics with pieces from Jean Cocteau and Les Lalanne. Rates begin at $560 per night.

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You’re in ancient Athens, so you’re bound to end up at the National Archaeological Museum at some point. The streets surrounding it may be a little scruffy, but they make a fitting backdrop for Pharaoh . Local food and travel writer Fotis Vallatos opened the mosaic- and cement-adorned restaurant in late 2022 with chef Manolis Papoutsakis, Perry Panagiotakopoulos, and opera singer Dimitri Platanias, and its fusion of wood-fired cooking, more than 400 natural wines, and upbeat vinyl DJ sets instantly made it a hit. It’s emblematic of the city’s booming gastro-tavernas that illuminate style and imagination as much as homey recipes for the likes of wild greens strewn with anthotyros cheese.

Likewise, after visiting the modern and contemporary works at the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation in artsy Pangrati, stop and replenish. The district is full of fine dining, with Michelin-starred Soil and Spondi paving the way to such laidback newcomers as Ex Machina . The lively gastro-taverna arrived in 2023, reeling in patrons with a comfy blue banquette and open kitchen revolving around Greek produce and spices snagged in Cairo. Here, scallops are buoyed with amaranth popcorn, omelets stuffed with blue crab, and organic young rooster finished over blazing charcoals. There’s also the morning-into-night hot spot Akra . At turns a restaurant, bakery, and wine bar, it has a minimalist, industrial sheen with too-crammed tables and berry-rife tarts. 

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Prunarus attempts that literally at Baba Au Rum, which he opened back in 2009 in central Athens: e.g. his signature daiquiri is layered with notes of oak and sherry.  

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Krimizi was one of the featured talents at Mon Coin Studio ’s “Women Ceramic Artists of Greece” exhibition this spring. Visit the studio’s bright Monostiraki gallery for candle holders, teapots, plates, and drinking vessels from contemporary Greek ceramists. It’s a short stroll from there to Hyper Hypo , the specialty bookstore art and design aficionados have gravitated to since 2021. An homage to visual culture, it’s lined with tomes dedicated to the oeuvres of groundbreaking artists like Judy Chicago, Saul Leiter, and Keith Haring. 

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Think fringed clutches that pair leather with Greek textiles and pillowcases with Armenian and Greek kilim motifs.

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When Vladimir Putin announced Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine in February 2022, he included a complaint about America’s self-regard. “Where does this insolent manner of speaking from the position of your own exceptionalism, infallibility and all-permissiveness come from?” the Russian president asked.

There was nothing new in Putin’s protestation. Throughout the cold war, the Soviets craved recognition from the Americans and were hypersensitive to perceived slights. Putin infamously described the dissolution of the USSR as the “greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century”. By this he meant the end of the Russian imperium, not Soviet communism. If America could not freely give the respect that Russia so yearned for, it would have to be won by force of arms.

As Sergey Radchenko shows in To Run The World , his masterful new history of the cold war, Putin’s psychology is very much in keeping with that of his Soviet predecessors. This psychology includes injured pride and an unquenchable sense of insecurity.

Ironically it was Putin’s decision to open up the Soviet archives over the past decade — an act of radical transparency that reflected Putin’s obsession with Russian history — that enabled Radchenko to reach these conclusions. His move made available a “full-blown deluge” of Soviet documents and personal papers after years in which historians had to make do with a trickle. This gave him access to a stream of consciousness of the USSR’s most senior officials spanning the period from Joseph Stalin to Mikhail Gorbachev.

The years following the Cuba missile crisis were as close as Moscow has come to achieving the respect it believes is its due

The result is a revisionist history of the cold war that downplays ideology as Moscow’s guiding motive. This marks quite a departure from most cold war histories, which pay more attention to that than national character. “Marxist-Leninism itself does not get us very far in understanding Soviet behavior,” Radchenko writes. “It was an ill-fitting cloth that never adequately draped the incongruent outlines of Moscow’s ambitions.”

What were — and are — those ambitions? The simplest answer would be to secure western recognition for Russia’s great power status. In 1944, Stalin got Winston Churchill’s acquiescence to Moscow’s sphere of influence when they scribbled country-by-country percentages for central and eastern Europe on a napkin. Hungary and Yugoslavia were each divided 50:50, while Greece was skewed 90:10 to Britain, and Romania 90:10 to the Soviets.

Their cynical bargain was formalised in the notorious Yalta Conference of 1945. The near-fatal decision by Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin’s successor, to station Soviet intermediate nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962 was prompted less by war-making plans than by a desire for parity with the US, which stationed missiles at several bases close to the border of the USSR. John F Kennedy defused the crisis by quietly removing US missiles from Turkey. In addition to equal status, Moscow had wanted to throw “our hedgehog in the Americans’ pants”, in the words of one Soviet official.

In spite of the Vietnam war, the 15 years following that near-miss in Cuba were the heyday of east-west détente. This was as close in history as Moscow has come to achieving the respect that it believes is its due. Humanity had entered a bipolar world in which the USSR was one of the poles. Yet this period was all too fleeting.

Khrushchev, whose antics had become an embarrassment, was removed in a Politburo coup in 1964. After a bout of Kremlin machinations, chiefly involving the sidelining of his Politburo rival Aleksei Kosygin, Leonid Brezhnev emerged as the first among equals. Détente survived the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 mainly because Washington wanted Moscow to help extricate it from its quagmire in Vietnam. The Soviets never did. Détente also survived Richard Nixon’s 1972 opening to China, which played heavily on Brezhnev’s paranoia about the threat from the east. Indeed, Nixon’s China move only redoubled Brezhnev’s efforts to pacify the USSR’s western flank by cementing détente.

Fascinatingly, Radchenko reveals that Brezhnev even had a racial motivation for the policy, believing that the European races should stick together. “As President Nixon once said,” Brezhnev recounted, “you can destroy us seven times over, and we can destroy you seven times over. I told him in response that after this happens, the whites will be gone, only the blacks and the yellows will remain.”

Yet détente’s golden age never quite lived up to Moscow’s dreams. Though Henry Kissinger, Nixon’s acrobatic national security adviser, mused about a joint US-Soviet “condominium”, and the superpowers pledged non-interference in each other’s domestic affairs, the USSR could not bring itself to abandon its revolutionary credentials. Soviet adventurism in Angola, the Horn of Africa, Portugal and ultimately in Afghanistan, which it invaded in December 1979, tipped US public opinion against détente.

Radchenko skilfully and vividly depicts a gerontocratic Politburo that wanted nuclear stability without relinquishing their freedom to pick up client states in what was then often called the “third world” (the Soviet bloc being the “second world”). Here again, this was as much a question of Russian self-esteem as Marxist-Leninist ideology. Since the US had client states all over the world, the Soviets should too. But these proved to be highly expensive. As Radchenko points out, Moscow’s backing of Vietnam’s communists almost broke the bank. Hanoi never repaid its debts.

If I have one quibble with Radchenko’s otherwise indispensable book, it is that he underplays the effects of US President Jimmy Carter’s weaponisation of human rights behind the Iron Curtain. (In full disclosure, I am writing a biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter’s national security adviser, and Kissinger’s great rival.) Kissinger saw the USSR as a permanent fixture on the landscape. Brzezinski saw the USSR’s nationalities and the Warsaw Pact satellite states as its Achilles heel. The latter turned out to be correct.

As Radchenko lays out, the USSR’s demise in 1991 came with a whimper, not a bang, in the guise of its final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who became the last general secretary of the Soviet Communist party in 1985.

As an émigré Russian scholar — teaching at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington and at Cardiff University — Radchenko is well placed to describe what has happened since the USSR’s dissolution in 1991. He vividly depicts the “clean-shaven gorillas in Adidas pants” who made their fortunes in the Moscow wild west of the 1990s.

This was also the era of Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin. As one of Radchenko’s colleagues, Mary Elise Sarotte , memorably observed, Yeltsin’s fondness for vodka was deemed a price worth paying: “Yeltsin drunk was better for the United States than most other Russian leaders sober”. But then came Putin. The rest is current affairs.

Radchenko’s conclusion is bleak because it is persuasive. Under Putin, he argues, Russia believes it has another chance via the rubric of multipolarity to destroy the world that the US has made: “With the right combination of chutzpah and good luck, Russia could one day recover its illusive greatness and its insatiable, self-destructive ambition to run the world”. Putin is gambling his country’s future — and other people’s security — on a quest that can never be sated.

To Run The World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power by Sergey Radchenko Cambridge University Press £30, 768 pages

Edward Luce is the FT’s US national editor

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