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The number of pacts between Labour local authority groups and their Tory counterparts has prompted fears that the views of local voters are being ignored in favour of deals aimed at locking out the S...
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On 21 October 2013, I purchased a VAIO laptop from the official Sony shop in St Petersburg. The model was either SVF152A29V (if you looked at the bottom of the computer) or SVF1521J1RB (if you looked...
On 7 December 2014, the Hermitage Museum grandly celebrated its 250th anniversary. The programme of events included a dazzling light show on Palace Square, the opening of a new wing in the General St...
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I was greatly impressed by the first work that I saw by Sergei Sergeyev. This was his portrait Vika (1977), a small oil painting on canvas). Its powerful mastery and close kinship to the old masters ...
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Picasso My first encounter with modern art came in the third grade, in 1971, when my eyes fell on an issue of the UNESCO Courier that was entirely devoted to a sociological survey and called “Public ...
In January 2014, it was first reported that Russia and Iran were discussing an oil-for-goods deal. Under the agreement, Moscow would buy up to 500,000 barrels a day of Iranian oil, in exchange for Ru...