Word: plotnikov
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...much in a Russia growing prosperous off its abundant oil and natural gas reserves. But while Moscow puts post-Soviet poverty behind it, the residents of Sakhalin are experiencing the energy boom in a manner familiar to many citizens of oil-rich nations. "I'm a native," says Vasili Plotnikov, a pensioner who owns a tiny country shack just a few miles from the massive LNG terminal. "I don't see any plus. I only see negatives." Maybe Chekhov's hell wasn't so bad, after...
From the back row of red velvet chairs, the stage looks enormous. If O’Leary was pirouetting with Viktor Plotnikov and Larissa Ponomarenko of the Boston Ballet, she’d be in front of an audience of 3,700 with a 60-piece orchestra playing the strains of the “Nutcracker Suite.” Today, she will tread the boards to take in the entire 4,800 square feet of performance space solo...