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Is it a good idea to splash money on European cities of culture?

Could splashing public money on city of culture initiatives make good business sense? <em>William Cook</em> reports

8 February 2014

9:00 AM

8 February 2014

9:00 AM

As you enter the old KGB building, at the end of Freedom Street, the first thing that hits you is the cold. Outside it’s below freezing. Inside it’s even colder. The cells are in the basement, down a dank and narrow corridor. Upstairs are the offices where the KGB filed away the details of the men and women they kept below.

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