Russian authorities and human rights campaigners have been alarmed by the growth of racial and ethnic tensions in Russia in the past few years. Dozens of people have been killed or injured in attacks by racists across Russia.

Russia’s chief rabbi, Berl Lazar, told president Putin durin a meeting that it was time to implement long-delayed plans by the Jewish community to set up a ‘museum of tolerance’. Putin has promised to give a month’s salary to help build a Jewish museum to promote tolerance and respect between faiths.

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Although the museum will not open its doors before 2009, a special website already reveals the extravagant design of the Centre Pompidou branch in the French city of Metz that is currently under construction. It will be France’s first example of cultural decentralisation organised by a national establishment, later to be followed by the Louvre at both Lens and Abu Dhabi. The website of the Centre Pompidou will take you through each major stage of the project, from the design phase until the grand opening and provides some good images of Shigeru Ban’s tent-like building.

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