The Russian Parliament today adopted a much-disputed bill that would allow Moscow's City Hall to pull down Soviet-era apartment blocks and relocate 1.6 million people. The State Duma passed the bill overwhelmingly while dozens rallied outside. <br/><br/>The controversial plan would allow Moscow City Hall to pull down entire neighbourhoods, involving more than 4,500 blocks. The redevelopment project, arguably Russia's largest, has rattled many in Moscow who see the plans as an encroachment on their constitutional rights and a ruse to evict them from leafy neighbourhoods to high-rise ones on the city's outskirts.<br/><br/>The bill now has to secure the approval of the Upper Chamber of the Russian Parliament and be signed by President Vladimir Putin.