In August 2026, for the first time since 2020, apartment rents fell in Russian million-plus cities, CIAN lead analyst Elena Bobrovskaya told Kommersant. One-bedroom apartments in the 16 largest cities became cheaper by an average of 3% year on year, and two-bedroom apartments — by 6%.

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I wandered through neighborhoods of new developments, trying to at least convince myself that selling such a future to living, thinking people, with a 30-year mortgage, wasn’t a crime. I honestly tried to break myself and become a successful person against my own nature. Here’s how it went—and here’s how it ended.

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