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...One unknown is the replacement last week of General Sergei Surovikin, the commander appointed by Moscow to improve military performance after its forces were routed in Kharkiv province, with General Valery...
...And at the beginning of January, Putin reappointed Valery Gerasimov, who is the chief of the general staff and the architect of the initial disastrous invasion plan....
...Shortly before Tikhanovskaya finished collecting the 100,000 signatures she needed to confirm her participation in the election, she got a call from an unknown number....
...But there was also the adrenalin thrill of jumping into the unknown. As my mother says — no pressure, no diamonds.”...
...In February 2013, Valery Gerasimov, the newly appointed chief of Russia’s general staff, penned an article in the Russian defence journal VPK....
...I have felt mildly melancholic and slightly lost since finishing Horace (though part of me thinks finishing is a euphemism; as Paul Valéry said, a poem is never finished, only abandoned)....
...“Fifteen years ago, the MBA was unknown in Germany. We are trying to educate the market.”...
...Back in the 1960s, envious of America’s ability to borrow easily abroad, French finance minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing denounced the reserve currency status of the dollar as an “exorbitant privilege”....
...Mark Rothko: Into an Unknown World continues until August 14....
...Valéry Giscard d’Estaing was not happy on Friday....
...Mr Van Rompuy, 62, is a Flemish Christian Democrat virtually unknown outside Belgium, who only became prime minister last December....
...The two Russian conductors who have stepped up to head rival London orchestras – Vladimir Jurowski at the London Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev at the London Symphony – are both settled into their first...
...The opera was virtually unknown here until Gergiev dragged a musty Mariinsky version to Lincoln Center in 1998....
...In time, foreign investors may decide that such cross border investing entails ”unknown unknowns” and seek other investments....
...None of this was unknown and leaves the impression that the company is struggling to formulate a long-term plan while its traditional sources of profit are drying up....
...But significant areas of his musical persona remain unknown, and these two concerts helped to illuminate some of them, not always to positive effect....
...The treaty was drafted in public at a convention led by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the former French president, who told his colleagues that grateful citizens would one day "build statues of you on horseback...
...But all eyes will be on the younger unknowns showing later: can Saatchi still force-feed reputations for a new artistic generation?...
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