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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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Published: 18 January 2008
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Stress Put on Friendship as Putin Visits Bulgaria
By Anna Smolchenko / Staff Writer Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov on Thursday night said there was no contradiction between Bulgaria's European Union membership and friendship with Russia as he welcomed President Vladimir Putin to Sofia. |
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Investors Cling to Russia as Stocks Take Pounding
By Catrina Stewart / Staff Writer Investors clung on to Russia's treasured safe-haven status Thursday as the country's stock market continued its headlong plunge for a third straight day. |
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British Council Gives Up the Fight
By , Natalya Krainova / Staff Writers The British Council gave up its fight to keep two of its Russian offices open Thursday, saying a ""campaign of intimidation"" by security services had forced it to suspend work in St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg. |
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Kellogg Corners Cereals Market
By Tai Adelaja / Staff Writer Tony the Tiger would growl proudly. Kellogg, whose cartoon tiger is pictured on its Frosties cereal boxes, announced Thursday that it had purchased United Bakers Group, the country's biggest breakfast cereal maker, to take almost complete control of the local market. |
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Kazakhstan's President Calls Foreign Missionaries a Threat
Reuters Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev criticized foreign missionaries on Thursday as a threat to national stability and urged lawmakers to curb their activities. |
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Kremlin Congratulates Saakashvili
Combined Reports President Vladimir Putin congratulated Georgia's president-elect, expressing hope that long-troubled relations between the two countries can be now be improved. |
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Medvedev to Present Platform
The Moscow Times First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is set to unveil his election platform Tuesday at the second national Civic Forum. |
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Russia Says Kosovo Will Never Join United Nations
Reuters Russia has backed its ally Serbia in the UN Security Council, saying Kosovo will never become a member of the United Nations or other international organizations if the breakaway province unilaterally declares independence. |
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Putin Balks at Protocol to Limit Executions
By Bagila Bukharbayeva / The Associated Press President Vladimir Putin has again refused to commit Russia to a key international protocol aimed at reforming the European Court of Human Rights, a top Council of Europe member said Thursday. |
Israeli Minister Gets Little Support
By Nikolaus von Twickel / Staff Writer In town for one day on Thursday to lobby the government for a change in its tack on Iran's nuclear policy, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, left with only general assurances. |
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7 Dead in Suicide Pakistan Bomb Blast
The Associated Press A suicide attacker detonated a bomb at a Shiite mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar late Thursday, killing at least seven people and wounding 20, officials said. |
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Indians Keep Birds Despite Outbreak
By Bappa Majumdar / Reuters Villagers at the center of a bird flu outbreak in India's east refused to hand over their chickens and ducks for culling on Thursday, hampering efforts to stamp out the disease. |
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Taiwan UN Vote Called 'Provocative'
Reuters The United States stressed on Thursday that it opposed Taiwan's plans to hold a referendum on UN membership, while Beijing urged Washington to help oppose the vote, which it calls a dangerous provocation. |
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Police Accused of Killing 7 in Kenya
By C. Bryson Hull, Nick Tattersall / Reuters Kenya's opposition on Thursday accused police of killing seven people during a second day of clashes with demonstrators protesting against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election. |
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BA Plane Crashes at Heathrow
The Associated Press A British Airways passenger jet crash landed Thursday at Heathrow Airport, tearing its underbelly, damaging its wings and skidding to a halt before emergency chutes deployed. |
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Ukrtelecom to Go on Auction Block
By Natalya Zinets / Reuters Ukraine's government has decided to sell 67 percent of Ukrtelecom, the latest move in 10 years of attempts to privatize a major stake in the dominant fixed-lined telecoms operator. |
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Socar Will Invest Billions in Turkey
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Kiev Gas Executives Stop by Gazprom
By Dmitry Zhdannikov / Reuters Ukrainian energy executives met Gazprom chief executive Alexei Miller on Thursday as Ukraine's new government seeks to revise the terms of gas agreements with Moscow amid mounting debt. |
Ukraine Clears Final Hurdle to WTO
Combined Reports The European Union said Thursday that it had cleared the final hurdles in talks about Ukraine's accession to the World Trade Organization after Kiev agreed to a deal on the duties it applies to exports. |
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SABMiller Offices Searched in Tax Inquiry
Bloomberg SABMiller, the world's third-largest brewer, said its Moscow office had been searched by government officials investigating a tax case. |
Ford Union Leader Says His Job Is Under Threat
By Tai Adelaja / Staff Writer The U.S. carmaker says, however, that it has not issued any orders to dismiss him from its plant in St. Petersburg. |
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Bid to Buy S&N Raised to $15.3Bln
Reuters Carlsberg and Heineken raised their bid for Scottish & Newcastle for a third time Thursday, to force Britain's biggest brewer into talks on a £7.8 billion ($15.3 billion) takeover. |
$36Bln Set Aside for Nanotechnology
By Anatoly Medetsky / Staff Writer The Cabinet on Thursday gave the nod to ambitious measures aimed at boosting sales in the country's nanotechnology sector at least 130-fold in the next seven years. |
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Finding a Way to Deal with Corrupt Traffic Police
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By Douglas Busvine / Reuters After a decade of rapid economic growth fired by the animal spirits of unfettered capitalism, Russia isn't about to turn back into a Soviet-style cradle-to-grave welfare state. |
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Bad-Neighbor Policy
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The Media Crisis
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Quiet on the Reform Front
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Don't Rush to Declare the U.S. Done
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Tbilisi's Tail No Longer Wagging the U.S. Dog
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Kremlin Guide To Dismissing Disobedience
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All Kidding Aside, Dmitry
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A Whiff of the Abyss
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Doomed From the Start
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