Rostropovich art fetches more than &#36;40M
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An art collection belonging to the late Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich has been sold to a private buyer for substantially more than $40 million, Sotheby's auction house said Monday.
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Facing fellow Russian Alexander Ovechkin gives Evgeni Malkin a little extra motivation. Maybe it helped Sunday, when Malkin made the difference for Pittsburgh against Ovechkin's Capitals.
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MOSCOW: Russia forged ahead yesterday with the weekend auction of the core asset of crippled oil giant Yukos despite a US court order barring the sale, as the state-controlled gas monolith Gazprom entered the bidding.
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Christie&#39;s International started New York&#39;s fall art-auction season by selling $128 million of Impressionist and Modern art, its highest such tally in four years.
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Look at the field at the WTA Championships, it looks more like the Kremlin Cup than a tennis tournament in Los Angeles. Wednesdayâs first day of action had four of the five
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Cellist and conductor Mstislav  Rostropovich, 79, has been admitted to a Moscow hospital but  his condition is not life-threatening, his secretary said on  Wednesday.
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Russian billionaire and co-owner of Arsenal soccer club, Alisher Usmanov, said on Monday he had bought the 450 piece art collection of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich who died earlier this year.
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Art collectors have consigned artworks valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars for the November sales at New York's auction houses. Christie's and Sotheby's, the city's two most popular houses, say estimates for sales totals are the highest in almost 15 years.
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On Saturday, the 31-year-old can claim a piece of the world heavyweight crown with a win over Vitali Klitschko, capping a Rocky-like rise to the top.
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Tensions among the Russians are on the increase as they compete for trophies, commercial opportunities and visibility.
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advantage. Already he has beaten Russia&#39;s Evgeny Makarenko, the two-time defending world champ, who arrived at the Games with a bulging rsum.
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A Russian billionaire says he bought the art collection of the late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich for the state by offering the upper limit of the value established by the auction house.
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Impressionist art still brings out the big spenders, but a successful auction at Christie's on Wednesday pulled in &#36;92.5 million and showed that contemporary art sales are where the action.
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The total prize money for this month&#39;s British Open is up 200,000 pounds (300,000 euros) from last year to 4.2 million pounds (6.2 million euros), The Royal and Ancient (RA) announced Tuesday.
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Top stars make more than ever, but they raise the tide for the whole league.
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Cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich, 79, is still receiving treatment at a Moscow hospital where he was taken earlier this month, his secretary said on Friday.
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Last Wednesday, at the stroke of noon, one of the most lucrative prizes in Russia&#39;s oil industry went under the hammer. Russia&#39;s Federal Property Fund, which controls sales of state assets, auctioned a 7.6