I said in another unrelated thread that the US had done something I consider unforgivable. The last 2 paragraphs in the OP explain it better than I can. When people are constantly lied to and given obvious misinformation, it's impossible to find anything to believe in.
My family is not anti-Russian but so many people in the US are. And maybe I coulda been fooled but they made one huge mistake - In real-life, nobody's pure good and nobody's pure-evil. I've seen words like "thug" and "cronie" in the news before but never as much as now. The OP is totally dead on. The western media's more like pep talks and cheerleaders at a football game cause there's very little news about what's really happening.

But what's the answer? When I try to explain what I know about Ukraine and Russia, most Americans just label me "commie". Somebody even asked me which I supported, the US or Putin - I told them I only supported the truth. Sometimes I don't think they wanna learn anything, they just want the US to win everything. Imo, that's the wrong kind of thinking cause no country should have everything.
Well, maybe I'm just lucky cause I can speed-read and my family is always finding new info about what's happening in Russia and Ukraine.
I do know this - Friendship isn't based on hate and fear and the US will never have friendly relations with Russia or Ukraine till it learns what friendship means.

About the International Business district in Moscow. I know exactly where that is and those buildings are awesome! I really like the color schemes too! Some other stuff I like in Moscow are Novy Arbat and the GUM department store. Sometimes I like old architecture (if it looks really wicked) and I like castles too. But mostly I'm all over the new stuff.