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From issue #5 of "The Living Here Guide to Clubs and Bars" an English-language biweekly published in Moscow.
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Zhar-Ptitsa
Kudrinskaya Ploshad 1
WHY: Genuine Seventies-style glitter ball on the dance floor. Fake Italian-style patio restaurant in the underground lobby, complete with plastic vines. Moscow's underworld in all their Armani/Versace splendor.
WHY NOT: Expensive, unfriendly. Identical to a million new Russian hangouts.
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Jacko's Casino Moskva
Hotel Leningradskaya
WHY: Famous pickup joint. Wonderfully cheesy. Mixed expat/Russian crowd. Poppy disco with large, low-rollers' casino in the next room.
WHY NOT: Has lost most of its atmosphere. Pyschotic bouncers. Most girls now cheap whores.
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Bely Tarakan (The White Cockroach)
Marshala Rybalko, Ulitsa 12, korp. 1
WHY: Some echoes of its legendary predecessor. Good billiards.
WHY NOT: Sadly, has become a bandit hangout.
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Bogdan's
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WHY: Rave scene. Giant TV images and pulsating lasers make you think you're seeing God.
WHY NOT: Danger of OD'ing on cheap Polish ecstacy.
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Golden Palace
3rd Yamskogo Poly, 15
WHY: Awesome gaudy, high rolling casino bar. Perspex floor near entrance, with fish swimming below your feet.
WHY NOT: Very expensive. Evil-looking Vietnamese clients and shotgun-toting security give the place a Deer Hunter feel.
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Kakudu
Leninsky Pr.
WHY: Bucket-size pina coladas. Impressionable Russian girls think it's sophisticated.
WHY NOT: Faux South Pacific decor. Mirrors around the dance floor. Sullen, Caucasian businessmen and their pouting molls.
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Marika
Ulitsa Perrovka
WHY: Come here to gawk at Moscow's coked-up femme-fatale elite. End your evening by getting your date stolen and your life threatened by slobbering drunk mafiosi and their unshaven thugs.
WHY NOT: You still have some dignity.
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Voyazh Club
Altufyevskoe Shosse 13, korp. 2
WHY: Real rock club, heavy leathers and bikers. Double-level stage. Cheap.
WHY NOT: Critical crowd. Singer was dragged from the stage last year and killed by an angry audience. 

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