Word: nikolai
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...that Russia shun Western capitalism and return to her Slavic origins. But Aksakov, best known for his trilogy, A Russian Gentleman, extended his hospitality to pro-Western thinkers too, ensuring lively debates involving such literary luminaries as Fathers and Sons author Ivan Turgenev and writer Alexander Gertsen. The writer Nikolai Gogol, whose works reflected Russia's vagaries and antagonisms, was a regular participant. It was here that Gogol first read aloud chapters of his never-to-be-completed novel, Dead Souls. Now a museum, Abramtsevo offers a less combative experience to visitors - and at only 60 km northeast of Moscow...
...expect as many votes as the Party of the Regions (pr). Recent polls predict just under 18% for ou and 16% for BYuT. With strong support in predominantly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine, pr is looking at a hefty lead. "We expect to carry well over 35% of the vote," Nikolai Azarov, chair of pr's political council, told Time. That would not be enough for an outright majority in the Rada but would mark an extraordinary rehabilitation for Yanukovych, the pr leader originally declared the winner of the 2004 presidential contest against Yushchenko but replaced by his rival after vote...
...perform more challenging instrumental parts and more expressive, emotional lyrics. What the Strokes have since lost in edge and youth they have gained in confidence.Despite their change in sound, the Strokes pulled their tried-and-tested tricks out of the hat on Saturday. The precise, driving bass lines of Nikolai Fraiture on bass and Fabrizio Moretti behind a raised drumset got the floor pounding. The two guitarists’ now-infamous interlocking parts sounded better live than on record: Albert Hammond Jr. laid down the rhythmic chords while effortlessly cool, waif-thin Nick Valensi fashioned melodic arpeggios on top.Throughout...
...teeth clenched, he mumbles, “I’m stuck in a city but I belong in a field.” Cut to shots of wind-blown Albert Hammond Jr., alone, twiddling his Stratocaster miserably in front of a panoramic cityscape. Drummer Fabrizio Moretti and bassist Nikolai Fraiture are overwhelmed by a horde of winter-jacketed pedestrians who stumble into them and knock up their instruments. Occasionally, one member or the other will appear to be as large as a skyscraper, a concept that seems to have been borrowed from the video for the Rolling Stones?...
...clinging to third place going into the long-program event. Arakawa may have been the 2004 world champion, but all week the who-will-get-gold headlines belonged to the frontrunners, America's Sasha Cohen and Russia's Irina Slutskaya. "[Arakawa] is among the top-three girls," her coach Nikolai Morozov told TIME in the run-up to Torino. "She now has to work on building more confidence in herself...