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...The Varna gold medallist Fumi Kaneko set the bar chasteningly high, partnered by an elegant and attentive William Bracewell....
...At the security guard’s funeral, the famed, one-eyed Israeli general, Moshe Dayan, foretold the violence to come....
...Swan Lake’ and ‘Madama Butterfly’, Royal Opera House One of the most beloved ballets in the canon returns to Covent Garden, with Tchaikovsky’s music brought to life by choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev...
...The outgoing security minister Omer Bar-Lev described the changes as “unhinged”, and argued they would damage the police force’s operational capacities....
...For late-night cocktails, one cannot do better than Jigger and Pony, currently 12th (and the highest-ranked Singapore bar) on The World’s Best Bars list....
...But not the only one: its co-owner (and co-founder of Fresh cosmetics) Lev Glazman, who oversaw design, has gone to town on the bespoke materials, fabrics and finishes....
...Mr Fruman, holding out a phone, urges Mr Giuliani, to wish his friend “Moshe” a happy birthday. “Moshe, how are ya, baby?” Mr Giuliani asks in his Brooklyn twang....
...Mr Parnas and Mr Fruman had more success forging a link between the New York City mayor and one of Ukraine’s most influential religious figures, Rabbi Moshe Azman in Kiev....
...Before their arrests, Mr Fruman, who owned a bar in Odessa called Mafia Rave, and Lev Parnas became close associates of Mr Giuliani — both hiring him to further their business ventures and serving him in...
...They appeared to serve as intermediaries between Mr Giuliani and Rabbi Moshe Azman, the politically influential Kiev rabbi who has become a staunch Trump supporter....
...Lev Parnas worked closely with the US president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in his efforts to pursue investigations in Ukraine against the former US vice-president, Joe Biden....
...It was arranged with the help of Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas — two businessmen with Ukraine ties now living in Miami....
...“I think we originally envisioned a nice, kind of casual social meet ’n’ greet in a bar,” Mr Buttigieg told his fans, who had each made a small donation to attend the fundraiser....
...Anthony Dowell’s 1987 production, which stuck closely to the 1895 version by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, had greater textual purity but was blighted by its busy staging and fussy Yolanda Sonnabend designs...
...Now, if we are living in a period of secular stagnation, this could be seen as an attempt to lower the bar to make up for lackluster capital investment....
...The proposed cap does not place a formal salary, but bars banks from deducting higher salaries as an expense. It has drawn mixed reactions in Israel....
...Mr Dobrev stressed that acceptance of the lev was not universal: his luck ran out at a beachside bar. “They said there was too much uncertainty and that they might go back to the drachma next week.”...
...“I can’t speak for all residents of Pskov, but those people with links to the military understand that the threat of war exists,” says Lev Shlosberg, a local lawmaker....
...Toulouse-Lautrec’s life is almost too well-known and Hollywoodised; in a sense he mythologised it all himself, the nightclubs, the bars, the brothels, the absinthe, the chanteuses, the demimondaines, the...
...Fed officials said the bar would continue to rise over the next several years....
...Hanoch Sheinman, a law professor at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University, sent an email to his second-year students last week to reassure them that a new date for their final exam would be set because of the disruption...
...“He’s probably the most articulate spokesperson for the one-state solution on the right,” says Gerald Steinberg, a professor of politics at Bar-Ilan University....
...Mr Putin needed to win an election in 2012, so he played what is known as the “Russia as a besieged fortress” card, according to pollster Lev Gudkov, head of the Levada Centre....
...But when I visited, the day after the opening, two were still being fitted out, as were two of the five bars, and four of the nine non-celebrity restaurants....
...The production is in Russian with English surtitles, and is directed by the company’s artistic director, Lev Dodin....
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