Russia Cancels Art Loan to London
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Russian authorities have canceled a major exhibition of French and Russian paintings set to open in London in January, fearing authorities could seize the art to settle private legal claims
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A Russian billionaire who paid at least $40 million to stop a collection of art being sold abroad said on Tuesday his decision to donate the artworks to the Russian government was 'irreversible'.
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Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador on Monday after Britain defied a Kremlin order and reopened its cultural offices in a row that has soured already-poor relations between the two powers.
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The Royal Academy in London unveiled Tuesday the controversial art exhibition "From Russia", which almost never happened due to diplomatic wrangling between London and Moscow.
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The government scrambled Thursday to persuade Russia not to cancel a major exhibition in London, promising to fast-track legislation to reassure Moscow of the safe return of its art works.
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Britain on Sunday said it had passed an order to prevent the seizure of paintings from Russia due in London for an exhibition by people claiming they were looted from their families in the 1917 revolution.
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MOSCOW -- Russia said yesterday that it would expel four British diplomats and suspend counterterrorism cooperation with London in the latest step in a confrontation linked to the radiation-poisoning death of a former KGB agent turned Kremlin critic.
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A 450-piece collection of Russian art amassed by exiled cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife Galina Vishnevskaya has been sold privately and will return to Russia, a London auction house said on Monday.
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The British Council is suspending its operations in the Russian cities of Saint Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, its chief executive Martin Davidson said in London Thursday.
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A Russian art exhibition will now open in London after the country's government gives the go-ahead.
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Russian authorities have canceled a major exhibition of French and Russian paintings set to open in London in January, fearing authorities could seize the art to settle private legal claims, a Russian museum official said Wednesday.
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A Royal Academy exhibition of French and Russian paintings could be cancelled by Russian authorities.
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Russia's culture agency said Thursday it had called off a landmark exhibition of Russian art in London because Britain had failed to guarantee the paintings' return.
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Arts & entertainment: More than 100 masterpieces from Russia are due to go on show at the RA next year - but there is a problem.
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The Utah Jazz's exhibition game in Russia next month was canceled by the NBA on Friday because of security concerns.
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Britain may have only two weeks to save a major Russian art exhbition in London from being cancelled, a representative of Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery said Sunday, Interfax news agency reported.
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An international banking consortium has decided to suspend approval for the â¬10 billion (Â£6.9bn) loan to Gazprom that would have financed the state-controlled company&#39;s acquisition of Yukos&#39;s most important oil production plant.