GUM's distinctive architecture and design, touches like an ice-cream bike and a throwback Soviet-era grocery store, and the abundance of live plants set the space apart from most US shopping centers.

Gosudarstvennyi Universalnyi Magazin is a prestigious department store that for more than a hundred years has remained the leading shopping centre of Russia. Why is the GUM store unique?

Visitors to the Russian capital can enjoy a display of 586,000 flowers of 28 types at Moscow's famous shopping arcade as part of a month-long festival. Mikhail Kusnirovich, head of BOSCO has also ...