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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
Updated at 03 December 2008 0:35 Moscow Time | |
Published: 3 December 2007
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Disappointment and Defiance in Party Camps
By Catrina Stewart, Nikolaus von Twickel, Anatoly Medetsky / Staff Writers Disappointment hung heavy at the campaign headquarters of the Communist Party on Sunday night, even though preliminary results indicated that it would win seats in the next State Duma. |
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Party Ponders Life After Landslide
By Anna Smolchenko / Staff Writer At polling station No. 2074 at the Russian Academy of Sciences, President Vladimir Putin looked relaxed and content as he arrived with his wife, Lyudmila, to vote. |
Turnout Up as United Russia Takes 63%
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Youths' Exit Poll Reflects Official Results
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Early Voters Support a Just Russia
By Alexander Osipovich / Staff Writer At first it seemed Polling Station No. 59 would be a hotbed of support for A Just Russia. |
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By Francesca Mereu / Staff Writer Soldiers patrolled the streets with automatic weapons here Sunday, while police stopped cars entering and leaving town, meticulously checking the documents of drivers and passengers and asking them why they were going to Beslan. |
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3 Elderly Voters Die
The Moscow Times At least three elderly voters died in polling stations during State Duma elections Sunday. |
Red Square Residents Vote With Homeless
By / Staff Writer The residents of No. 1 Red Square marched to their local polling station early Sunday morning, stamping their feet in the cold as they waited to vote. |
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By David Nowak / Staff Writer Voters complained of intimidation and attempted bribery in what election observers called a coordinated effort to boost United Russia's results in the State Duma vote on Sunday. |
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Fancy Medal Unveiled for Foreigners
Reuters An extravagant gold and diamond medal was unveiled Friday to honor late Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov, who died a year ago after two decades of eccentric rule. |
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'Godzilla' Dies After 6 Months on the Run
Reuters A crocodile that escaped from a traveling circus in Ukraine and evaded capture for six months died Friday after two days back in captivity, officials said. |
Okruashvili Asked for Asylum
Reuters Georgian opposition leader Irakly Okruashvili applied for asylum in Germany days before police arrested him in a Berlin hotel on a request from Georgia's government. |
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Kazakhstan to Manage the OSCE in 2010
Combined Reports Kazakhstan won approval Friday to take over the chairmanship of Europe's main human rights and security watchdog in 2010 after accepting U.S. demands to pledge to protect the OSCE's election monitoring body. |
44 Miners Injured in Ukrainian Blast
Combined Reports An explosion injured 44 miners on Saturday at a colliery in eastern Ukraine was struck by the country's worst mining accident two weeks earlier. |
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Paper Reports Rise in Russian Spying
Reuters Russia's foreign intelligence services are accelerating efforts to recruit young lawmakers and academics in Germany, a German newspaper reported Sunday. |
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Putin Signs CFE Moratorium Drawing U.S., OSCE Protests
The Associated Press President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a law suspending Russia's participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, the Kremlin announced. |
Trepashkin Freed After Serving 4-Year Sentence
By David Nowak / Staff Writer Mikhail Trepashkin, a former Federal Security Service agent, was freed from a Urals prison on Friday after serving four years for divulging state secrets. |
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British Muslim Delegation Pushes for Teacher's Release
The Associated Press The British government and a Muslim delegation from the House of Lords are together pushing hard to obtain a pardon from Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for a teacher imprisoned when she allowed her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad. |
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Venezuela Votes on Chavez's Changes
By Hugh Bronstein / Reuters Venezuelans voted in a tightly contested referendum Sunday on whether to allow left-wing President Hugo Chavez to stay in power for as long as he keeps winning elections or hand him his first defeat at the polls. |
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U.S. Focus of Climate Discussions
The Associated Press Any agreement hammered out by a massive United Nations climate change conference starting in Indonesia this week would not make sense without the participation of the United States, the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases, the UN's climate chief said Sunday. |
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