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Last year, eight new metro stations were opened in the capital, and these are now used by about 70,000 passengers a day.

The capital is also opening new parking lots, building new dedicated lanes and introducing artificial intelligence technologies to control the operation of traffic lights.

Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry reported that it received a call regarding the blaze at around 1pm Moscow time (10am GMT).