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Article: RUSSIA: PUTIN LIKES HEAVY CLASSICAL MUSIC, TOO.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- March 13, 2000
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Acting President Putin and British Premier Tony Blair, together with their spouses, are to attend the premiere of a new production of Prokofiev's epic opera "War and Peace" at St. Petersburg's Mariinskii Theater this weekend. Valerii Gergiev, who will be conducting the performance, told Interfax on 8 March that Putin's decision to invite Blair is convincing evidence of the acting president's deep respect for Russian culture. Putin, Gergiev said, is not a man who spends just a few minutes talking about culture out of a sense of obligation. The ...