Oh yeah, in those photos of Moscow taken from our hotel window, the newer US Embassy building is just to the right of the Russian White House (the Parliament building). It has the greenish glass windows in what looks like a sandstone shell. This was the building that when it was first built, the US allowed Soviet contractors to build it, and surprise, they later discovered it was riddled with bugs. Devices were even embedded in support beams, etc... Was never sure how they cleared that up.

Just to the right of the US Embassy, that rectangular building (just to the left of the really tall building) is the Mir hotel. We stayed there a couple nights on our first time around.

Sticking up above the top of the right central part of the Mir is the older US Embassy building. You can just make out the yellowish coloring of part of the building, it has what looks like a central elevator shaft. We went to this older building with John to get his papers.