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...Robert Service is emeritus professor of Russian history at the University of Oxford and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford....
...After three months of soldier training, he joined the palace’s some 30-strong kitchen team, cooking for presidents Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and François Mitterrand....
...As she commented in December in an interview with the Robert Schuman Foundation, a Brussels-based research centre: The defeat of Russia in Ukraine will herald the defeat of the Lukashenko regime....
...The following day, I decide to follow them, driving down to Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme, a pretty town 20 miles south, where the River Somme meets the Channel....
...Brancusi’s 1926 photograph of his bronze head “La Negresse blonde vue de face” angled so that the shiny faceted surface repeatedly mirrors his studio; Cy Twombly’s 1954 portrait through a workspace in “Robert...
...Culture: Russian Valery Gergiev has been sacked as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic over his refusal to condemn President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine....
...Valery Gergiev, one of the most celebrated figures in the classical music world, was sacked this week from his position as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic....
...(FT) Valéry Giscard d’Estaing dies The former French president, who has died at the age of 94, was one of the outstanding political figures in postwar France and on the wider European stage....
...Valery Gergiev has done good work in Wagner, but here his conducting sounds slow and lifeless; the tension and drama are constantly becalmed....
...He had entered government as an aide to Georges Pompidou in 1962, was twice prime minister (under Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and then François Mitterrand), held a succession of ministerial posts and ran the...
...“I do not know whether a philosopher has ever dreamt of a company engaged in the home delivery of sensory reality,” wrote the French poet and essayist Paul Valéry in 1928....
...I dedicate this to the WHO's Carlo Urbani and Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung, who died serving their communities and who represent the selfless and brave healthcare workers around the world who put their...
...But nervous Nato leaders say the show of force reflects the military vision of General Valery Gerasimov, chief of the general staff of Russia’s armed forces, whose doctrine of “hybrid war” has made Russia...
...Incumbent Valéry Giscard d’Estaing favoured a rounded frame; the sort you might expect a duke of above-average intellect to pull out of a breast pocket when in his library....
...Seeking Paul Valéry’s grave in Sète, she finds the title of her short story in the word “DEVOUEMENT” she spies on a nearby headstone....
...Mr Trump has asked Robert Harward, a retired vice-admiral, to become his new national security adviser....
...Robert Graham...
...Doubles at the Radisson Blu Stansted (for the night before departure) cost from £109 Photographs: Michael Runkel/Robert Harding; Mike Carter; Carolyn Drake/Panos Pictures … Letter in response to this...
...“I was arrested once, for jaywalking . . . a friend saw what happened, told police who I was and, in front of them, called the Mariinsky, pretending to talk to Valery Gergiev [the theatre’s powerful general...
...Down the line came the surprising but distinctive voice of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, former president of more than three decades ago. “Vous parlez français, monsieur?” he inquired....
...Fine orchestral playing under Valery Ovsyanikov, with Robert Clark a grand Stravinsky pianist....
...Complicating matters, the conductor on duty was Valery Gergiev, a close Putin ally, and the heroine was Anna Netrebko, an official Putin advocate....
...At Covent Garden, a colleague whom he once took backstage to meet Valery Gergiev was able to witness the habitual Klinger/conductor greeting. “Maestro!” “Larry!” “Maestro!” “Larry!”...
...After stints working for Robert Maxwell’s eastern European private equity business – until the corrupt British magnate fell off his yacht – and Salomon Brothers, “the most Wall Street of Wall Street firms...
...In the 1960s, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, then French finance minister, complained about the dollar’s “exorbitant privilege”....
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