
Yury Luzhkov
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Who was Yury Luzhkov?
Mayor of Moscow from 1992-2010 who transformed the city's infrastructure and was credited with modernizing Russia's capital. He was dismissed by President Medvedev amid corruption allegations and later went into exile.
Biographical data adapted from Wikipedia’s article on Yury Luzhkov (CC BY-SA 4.0).