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 that housed the Russian Federation's Congress of People's Deputies and Supreme Soviet until the crisis of 3 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 cabinet known as Pravitel'stvo (translated in English as Government).

See also

• White House, official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America

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