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...Putin was hoping in that way to legitimise the vote — to show the world that there is someone in the election who’s against the war,” said Marat Guelman, a former Kremlin adviser turned regime critic in...
...He claimed that the destruction in Mariupol had been caused by retreating Ukrainian forces. Standing by his side, Putin added: “They’re Nazis. Decent people won’t do that.”...
...“They’re having to do it from standaway missiles because they’re afraid to fly over Ukraine....
...“You’re not given everything on a plate: you have to search and work for it . . . right until the last breath,” he said in 2021....
...Plus they’re located in proximity to residential areas which guarantees reasonably short time spent on shopping.”...
...VTB said it would remain an investor in Magnit for at least two years, but no longer than five. “We’re not going to stay in the asset forever, we’ll exit it,” said Andrei Kostin, chief executive....
...Gavin Turk has updated Jean-Louis David’s “Death of Marat” painting, aptly used for some of the hotel’s bathrooms....
...We’re a young country. When the Soviet Union collapsed, there were no legal mechanisms whatsoever....
...When Moscow re-organised relations with the Russian regions after the collapse of the Soviet Union with a federation treaty, Tatarstan and Chechnya refused to sign....
...Vorontsova reappeared in the flashy Freedom pas de deux, lifted and thrown with seeming insouciance by the stalwart Marat Shemiunov....
...And if you’re really watching the pennies and don’t mind a room without a view, there’s always Sleepbox, Moscow’s first capsule hotel, which opened earlier this year....
..., an unruly kids’ Christmas show, before directing a controversial RSC revival of Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade. But it’s his singular process in the theatre that imposes uncertainty....
...They can feel totally at home in Mikhail Messerer’s handsome new re-staging....
...Since March, when the presidential re-election campaign produced a bump in Mr Putin’s popularity, his ratings have fallen badly....
...Marat/Sade is set in 1808 in a French asylum. One of the inmates, the infamous Marquis de Sade, has written a play about the assassination of the revolutionary thinker Jean-Paul Marat 15 years earlier....
...“A dictator is when you really do control the elite, and each day decide, ‘Today you’re getting this and tomorrow you’re getting this, and you’re not getting anything’…For Putin, the situation is more complicated...
...“Deir Ezzor seems to be in a state of revolt and they’re losing control of it.”...
...Her wittily in-your-face designs for Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Anna Nicole this year involved re-cladding the interior of the Royal Opera House as a shrine to the self-destroying protagonist: she likes to envelop...
...“If you do a new play at the Bush Theatre or the Royal Court, you’re not judged against Shakespeare....
...Marat Gelman, the architect of the new policy, calls it “rebranding”....
...Then you’ve got to impress him that you’re the person who can implement the idea.”...
..., the Georgian minister for reintegration, whose job is to deal with the breakaway regions....
...In between art projects, he helped Yeltsin get re-elected in 1996 in an epic battle with the Communists. By 2000, he said, he was helping “real people” buy art....
...The political tightening has continued since Mr Putin’s re-election....
...You’re going to win a lot of tournaments so let me keep this one.”...
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