Work will also be done to provide additional accommodation and improve communal areas.

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His simple new communal home contrasts with the much larger accommodation currently being renovated inside the Vatican for the future use of the now retired former Pope Benedict and his staff, reports the BBC's David Willey in Rome.

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Boris Fedorov, a colleague who later became finance minister, recalls the modesty of his accommodation: a cramped, run-down communal flat.

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