Although roofless, it feels oppressive: a tight rectangle of low walls and odd sculptures.

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Kilinochchi is a sorry mess of shrapnel-riddled homes, shops and other scorched, roofless structures.

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At least eight Doric temples still stand roofless but erect in Sicily, and six others in spectacular ruins.

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Other earth buildings are roofless shells, destroyed by conflict, while others bear the scars of earthquakes and conflagrations.

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OK, enough about the wonders of roofless motoring.

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Kerimov is building a 45, 000-seat stadium to replace Anzhi's 15, 200-seat roofless bowl, but it is hard to see the new facility as an instant money-spinner: Makhachkala's population is less than 600, 000, and Dagestan is one of the poorest regions of Russia.

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