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«December Nights» at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is a music festival which has been held at the museum annually since 1981. The idea for the event came from Svyatoslav Teofilovich Richter (1915 – 1997) and the director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Irina Alexandrovna Antonova
Since 1998 the festival has been named “Svyatoslav Richter’s December Nights”, and the art director after Richter’s death has been the eminent musician Yuri Bashmet. During his time the festival has become world acclaimed and its program filled with an abundance of talent. The participants of the program are distinguished musicians, stage managers, artists and poets.
XXVIII International music festival “Svyatoslav Richter’s December Nights” - “Dedicated to Turner – image and sound”.
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The Crisis: Raising Oil Output Still State's Goal
Anyone who thinks that oil and wealth automatically go hand in hand obviously hasnt been paying attention to export revenues in recent months.
Market Matters: Central Bank Devalues Ruble Twice in a Week
The Central Bank on Friday allowed the ruble to depreciate for the second time in a week and said it would raise key interest rates in an effort to reduce capital outflows.
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| Wednesday, December 03, 2008
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Prosecutors Ask Britain to Turn Over 5 Suspects
By Nikolaus von Twickel / Staff Writer Prosecutors have asked Britain to extradite five suspects in a fraud case at state-owned shipping giant Sovkomflot, adding another twist to the already fraught relationship between London and Moscow. |
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St. Pete Oil Terminal Plans to Modernize
Bloomberg Petersburg Oil Terminal, the country's largest oil-product exporting port, plans to spend as much as $200 million on modernizing facilities as it seeks to expand annual loading capacity by one-quarter to 15 million tons. |
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Levitin Seeks $860Bln for Transport
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Ports Bidding for Upgrade Tax Breaks
Bloomberg The government has begun accepting bids from the country's seaports for tax breaks and other incentives to upgrade infrastructure and diversify the economy. |
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Workers Vote on Ford Offer
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Business in Brief
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January Closes With An 'Irrational' Selloff
By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer Russian stock markets bowed out of January with one of their worst months of trading in years, the benchmark RTS suffering its biggest losses since 2000. |
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CTC Buys 20% of Kazakh TV Firm
Reuters Entertainment television company CTC Media said Friday that it signed a deal to buy a 20 percent stake in Channel 31, Kazakhstan's fourth-largest television network by audience share. |
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Manufacturing Hits August 2006 High
Bloomberg Manufacturing expanded in January for the fourth consecutive month, reaching the highest level since August 2006 as new orders rose, a gauge of industrial production showed Friday. |
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Poland Seeks Cheaper Pipeline Route
Bloomberg Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will seek to persuade Russian officials to pick a ""cheaper"" route for Gazprom's planned Nord Stream pipeline during a visit to Moscow on Friday. |
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Lithuania to Merge Energy Companies
Reuters Lithuania's government won a parliamentary vote Friday to merge a private and two state-owned energy companies to invest in a new nuclear power plant and build connections to Sweden and Poland. |
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Central Bank Moves to Combat Inflation
Reuters, MT The Central Bank took markets by surprise Friday by using a wide range of measures to curb inflationary pressures and sacrificing banking-sector liquidity to defeat price growth. |
A Canadian Mogul, Clinton and a Kazakh Pact
By Jo Becker, Don Van Natta Jr. / NEW YORK TIMES SERVICE Late on Sept. 6, 2005, a private plane carrying Canadian mining financier Frank Giustra touched down in Almaty. Several hundred kilometers to the west a fortune awaited: highly coveted deposits of uranium that could fuel nuclear reactors around the world. And Giustra was in hot pursuit of an exclusive deal to tap them. |
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More Uranium for U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
Reuters U.S. nuclear power reactors will be able to obtain more supplies of Russian enriched uranium for fuel, under a trade deal signed by the two countries Friday. |
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U.S. Signs Kazakh Army Deal
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2 Plutonium Reactors Will Close Early
By H. Josef Hebert / The Associated Press wo of Russia's plutonium-producing reactors may be closed six months ahead of schedule, a major milestone in U.S. nuclear nonproliferation efforts, a senior Energy Department official said. |
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