Rosenberg: What one Russian square says about relations with West

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin has signed an order renaming Europe Square Eurasia Square.

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The city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, has signed an order renaming this place Eurasia Square.

It's a little change that says a lot about the direction in which Russia is moving: away from the West.

It’s not the prettiest square in the Russian capital. It's certainly no match for Red Square, with the breathtaking onion domes of St Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin.

Eurasia Square is built beside the bustling "Kyiv Railway Station" and a hotel, where the BBC’s Moscow Office was once located. There’s a fountain and an unusual composition created by a Belgian sculptor entitled The Abduction of Europa.

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