Bolshoiâs Director Wonât Join City Ballet
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The New York City Ballet and Alexei Ratmansky have ended their pas de deux.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 26 -- For the second time this month, a leading Russian opposition figure has withdrawn from March's presidential election complaining of a political landscape that has made open competition impossible.
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The controversial Sikh play Bezhti (dishonour) which provoked violent protests in the UK city of Birmingham looks like it will not be re-staged elsewhere.
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Harry Redknapp tells BBC Sport he does not want a director of football to join him at Portsmouth.
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Emergency construction needed to spare the historic Bolshoi Theater in Moscow from collapse has delayed its restoration for a year, and it is not scheduled to reopen until November 2009, Reuters reported.
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The San Francisco Opera will not extend the tenure of music director Donald Runnicles when his contract expires in 2009.
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LONDON  - The director of a feature-length documentary about the fatal radiation poisoning of a former Russian spy -- set to screen this weekend at the Cannes Film Festival, as a late addition to the lineup -- denied on Wednesday that news of its Official Selection status had been delayed for political reasons.
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Russia announced on Monday it will not  issue new entry visas to staff working in the British  government's cultural offices in two regions, sharpening a row  that has soured already-poor relations.
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The legendary Russian swimmer, who has won four Olympic gold medals, has made the decision following his unsuccessful Athens Olympics, French newspaper L&#39;Equipe reports.
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A British cultural organization defied a Russian government order to close offices in two cities, creating a fresh strain in the already tense relations between Russia and Britain.
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Tears fell at the New York State Theater for Kyra Nicholsâs farewell after 33 years with New York City Ballet, but there were fewer tears than flowers.
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Alexander Popov, twice a double-sprint freestyle Olympic gold medalist, said Thursday it was unlikely that he would compete again.
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Track coach Remi Korchemny agrees to permanently stay out of elite-level coaching, marking the first time a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency case has led to a coach being banished for doping violations.
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Russian officials say there are grounds to bar opposition activist Mikhail Kasyanov from the presidential race.
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A high-ranking Russian government official on Wednesday rejected a local newspaper report that the government headed by Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov would soon face a reshuffle.
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Natalia Bessmertnova, a Soviet-era prima ballerina who danced with the Bolshoi Ballet for decades, died Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the ballet said. She was 66.
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Moscow calls off planned show of art masterpieces at Royal Academy in London as relations chill