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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: Bad Time For Some, Others Cash In
Investment banks are laying employees off by the hundreds, developers are freezing projects and oil firms are lining up to receive government aid. At some companies, however, business has never been better.
Market Matters: Platinum Prices Sink on Auto Industry Woes
The U.S. and European automobile industries are screeching to a halt, and they're leaving behind a string of casualties -- not all of which are obvious.
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| Tuesday, December 02, 2008
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Published: 15 May 2008
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Editorial: Bring Back War Against Cabinet Fat
The structure of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's Cabinet probably reflects his vision of how the government should be run. It has a record number of deputy prime ministers -- seven. This will inevitably create overlapping functions and competition among them, allowing Putin to remain the ultimate powerbroker. For Sergei Mironov, a staunch Putin loyalist and speaker of the Federation Council, this represented the successful realization of public administration reform. |
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Boris Kagarlitsky: Two-Headed Eagle Infected With Bugs
It was rather charming how the inauguration of the new president and the appointment of the old president as the new prime minister fit nicely between Labor Day on May 1 and Victory Day on May 9. Russians commemorated the events by celebrating nonstop for 10 days in a row. |
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Putin's Tall Order
One curious feature of Russia's bureaucracy is that the more incompetent an official is, the more likely he is to be rewarded and promoted. This rule has endured under various regimes, from the 19th century to the Soviet period and on to present-day Russia. It provided fodder for generations of Russian satirists, from Gogol to Saltykov-Shchedrin and from Ilf and Petrov to Vladimir Voinovich. |
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The Media Crisis
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A Teflon Putin for Your Grandkids to Admire
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The Advantages of Bankruptcy
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The Risk of Piracy, Chechen-Style
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Kremlin Guide To Dismissing Disobedience
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A Whiff of the Abyss
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Doomed From the Start
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The Real Issue Isn't a Shield in Central Europe
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Don't Expect Miracles From the G20 Summit
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A Guarded Liberalism
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Russia's Top Economist Needs to Face Reality
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