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In Krasnoyarsk, an airport and the state opera and ballet theatre are named after Dmitri Hvorostovsky. At this theatre Dmitri Hvorostovsky was a soloist from 1985 to 1990. Krasnoyarsk is Hvorostovsky's native city: here he studied at a music school and in the music department of a teacher
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Mikhail Piotrovsky announces the opening of new Hermitage centres abroad, in Oman and South Korea. The centres in Korea and Oman are the first overseas satellites of the Hermitage to be announced since 2022.
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The Virgin and Child Surrounded by Singing Angels. Simon Marmion, "Hours of Jean de Gros", between 1474 and 1484
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Everyone who witnessed the great Furby craze knows they were demonic, even those who do not ordinarily believe in demons. It would seem that every generation is palmed off with its own demonic doll. True, the standard Furby of the 2000s was half the size, and it was supposed that
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In the paintings and portraits of Giorgione there is often a mysterious figure, or several, as in this portrait of a warrior of 1505 from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Who is this sinister stranger, peering so intently into the warrior's face? Why does he hold the man&
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The Russian part of the Unified State List of Scientific Publications, the "White List", has recently been compiled. In all, 3120 journals have made it onto the list, which is to say practically the whole of the former "VAK list". We are told that "the
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Millions of Christians took to the streets of Moscow, Saint Petersburg, London… Europe, wake up, it is high time!