Moscow's Stars of Business and Culture Celebrated
Moscow's brightest starts in business and culture were honored at the first annual Moscow Times Awards on Tuesday evening, in a ceremony held at the Metropol Hotel. Our photographer was there to document the proceedings.
Read more about the awards ceremony here.
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Guests enjoying a game of chess in the lounge.
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Mingling before dinner was served in the ballroom.
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Staff of The Moscow Times' newsroom.
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Business Editor Justin Lifflander in conversation with a guest.
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Stefan Thijs being interviewed while his wife looks on.
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Vladimir Pozner, master of ceremonies and trilingual journal remembered in the West as the "face" of the Soviet Union, being interviewed by The Moscow Times' Gabrielle Tetraut-Farber prior to the awards ceremony, while Ekaterina Movsumova, Publisher of The Moscow Times looks on.
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Andrew McChesney, editor of The Moscow Times speaks to Fergus Auld from the British Embassy.
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Theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov accepting the award for Person of the Year in Culture. He transformed the old Gogol Theater into the hip Gogol Center, a popular destination among the capital's youth.
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Irina Antonova, director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts who was voted Person of the Year by readers of The Moscow Times, gives her acceptance speech as Jean-Emmanuel de Witt, CEO of Sanoma Independent Media, and Vladimir Pozner look on.
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Business Editor of The Moscow Times Justin Lifflander presenting the award of Best Cultural and Leisure Center to Olga Zakharova, director of Gorky Central Park of Culture and Recreation.
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Director of the Golden Mask theater festival Maria Revyakina, winner of the Best Cultural Event award.
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The award for Best Business Hotel, which was won by the Hotel Metropol Moscow, being presented by Andrew McChesney, Chief Editor of The Moscow Times.
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The head of the French Chamber of Commerce presenting the Foreign Direct Investment award to Renault, which was accepted on behalf of the auto giant by Igor Titov, the company's vice president for public affairs for Eurasia.
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Dr. Yelizaveta Glinka, the winner of the Humanitarian of the Year award. She heads the Just Aid Foundation, whose volunteers head to Paveletsky Station every Wednesday to distribute food, clothing and medicine to the homeless.
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Vladimir Mau, rector of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, accepting the Best Business Event award for the Gaidar Forum.
The forum was held for the first time in 2010 in commemoration of Yegor Gaidar, one of the authors of Russia's economic reforms of the 1990s, has become a key political and economic event in Moscow.
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Ron van Dartel, Dutch ambassador to Russia collecting the award for Country Partner of the Year, won by the Netherlands.
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Mikhail Fedoseyev, vice president of MasterCard Russia, receiving the award for MasterCard, named Best Corporate Citizen.
At the beginning of the year, MasterCard launched a campaign to fight cancer with money donated to a charity fund with every purchase made with the card, garnering 34 million rubles.
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Sergei Velmyakin, deputy labor and social protection minister and one of the authors of the anti-smoking law accepting the Best City Improvement award.
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Frank Schaff, CEO of the Association of European Businesses choosing a cocktail at the bar.
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The Moscow Times staff members Polina and Anastasia Chatting with Larisa Kovalenko, CEO of Messe Munchen Russia.
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Sampling the whiskey on offer.
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Guests mingling in the lounge prior to the event.
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Irina Antonova being interviewed before the ceremony. She later won Person of the Year.
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Tim Stubbs of law firm Dentons speaks to Vladimir Pozner.
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Chatting at the cocktail bar prior to the awards ceremony.
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Peter Necarsulmer, Expert Board Member of The Moscow Times Awards and board member of AmCham.
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Kira Taubert, CEO of Digicast, and friends.
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Sergei Velmyakin, deputy labor and social protection minister having a drink with his wife.
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Business Editor Justin Lifflander speaking with Sergei Velmyakin, deputy labor and social protection minister and his wife.
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Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber of The Moscow Times interviewing Derk Sauer, founder of the newspaper.
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Derk Sauer speaking with Ekaterina Movsumova, Publisher of The Moscow Times.
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