White House, Moscow
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The White House of Russia (Белый дом), also known as the Russian White House, is a government building in Moscow. It was designed by the architects D. Chechulin and P. Shteller. Construction started in 1965 and ended in 1979. The building housed the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic's Congress of People's Deputies and Supreme Soviet until the crisis of 4 October 1993 when an uprising led to a siege and artillery bombardment on the building that caused a major fire. (See also: Russian constitutional crisis of 1993).
The reformed parliament, known thereafter by its tsarist era title of Duma, was elected in 1994 and moved to another building on Moscow's Okhotny Ryad.
The renovated White House now houses the Russian government.
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- White House, official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America
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