Hints and tips:
...Edward Lucas Absolutely....
...His music is firmly rooted in Germanic tradition (Wagner, Strauss and Berg are invoked), and both his vocal writing and his orchestration are breathtakingly assured....
...Bellingcat’s lead Russia investigator Christo Grozev made the prediction earlier this month in an interview with the FT’s Edward Luce....
...Gideon talks to Edward Lucas, author and senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, about the stability of Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia....
...As both director and designer, Charles Edwards has devised a production in which the visual element plays a big role — symbolic daylight streaming through the doors, decay and detritus littering the final...
...The recent attempted coup by Yevgeny Prigozhin, Putin’s former caterer, whose business empire included the Wagner mercenary group, was predicted by Grozev....
...Of course the plane carrying Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner leader, may have had an accident. But I think most of you would agree that that would be a remarkable coincidence....
...Additional reporting by Gloria Li in Hong Kong and Edward White in Hong Kong...
...Miles Johnson had a fascinating investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group and its sanctions-evasion network in Africa and beyond....
...Here was a conductor who always achieved a good standard of playing and proved himself equally strong in composers as diverse as Wagner and Britten, Janáček and Strauss....
...Rachman Review — Wagner’s revolution was almost over before it began, but has it done lasting damage to Russia? Gideon Rachman talks to Edward Lucas, a man who has consistently got Russia right....
...Vladimir Putin has rewarded loyalists in the military with promotions and frozen out figures sympathetic to the leader of the mercenary Wagner Group in a shake-up of Russia’s security services....
...For now, the party is behind him according to Edward Luce, our US national editor....
...When the FT saw them, several had been unreported by the world’s media — China building cyberweapons to take over western satellites and Russian mercenary group Wagner seeking weapons around the world....
...The documents also contain detailed insight into the paramilitary Wagner group, which allegedly sought to covertly buy arms from Turkey....
...The fact that the Wagner Group — the mercenary outfit run by Putin’s friend Yevgeny Prigozhin — is now recruiting from prisons is both terrifying and reassuring....
...On Monday the Economist magazine published a commentary under the headline: “Alexander Lukashenko is the clearest beneficiary of Wagner’s munity.”...
...February 15 to September 1; further information and tickets here ‘Burtynsky: Extraction/Abstraction’, Saatchi Gallery The biggest show to date of the work of Canadian photographer and artist Edward Burtynsky...
...One good read After the Wagner rebellion, Russia can never go back....
..., Edward Elgar’s “‘Land of Hope and Glory”, Hubert Parry’s “Jerusalem” and the national anthem....
...For his first concert as principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner chose Tippett’s opera The Midsummer Marriage, given its premiere in 1955....
...This isn’t any old bath but the one Edward VII used; he visited the spa town nine times....
...His musical interests range from Wagner to Leonard Cohen to jazz. A polo player and huntsman, he is not known to enjoy watching mainstream sport....
...Marc FilippinoNeil, what’s the Wagner Group doing there? What are they hoping to accomplish?...
.... — Ira Wagner, Bethesda, Maryland...
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