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...Russian pianist Lev Vlasenko dazzled Harvard students with his smooth piano playing in a dimly lit Adams House Common room, the political tension between the virtuoso’s native USSR and the United States was hardly visible. At the informal concert, the students seemed to forget that their respective countries were at war and simply delighted in each other’s company. In 1959, when the Cold War was at its pinnacle, and the relationship between the U.S. and the USSR was frigid at best, a team of 12 Soviet delegates came to Harvard as part...
...still believe will come back and win under any circumstance.” Kumar’s faith proved well placed as “Colonel” Clayton roared back from a 2-6 first set to take the second 6-4. With opponent Artem Vlasenko changing his shirt due to perspiration, the Crimson captain stayed calm and focused, launching blistering serves and overcoming a late ankle strain to take the final frame 6-3. Despite Clayton’s admirable comeback, the heroics belonged to Ermakov, who finished before the captain and truly sealed the match for Harvard...
...first-round byes, and the top 16 teams got a free pass in doubles. The Crimson was led by co-captains Dan Nguyen and Chris Clayton. After his first-round bye, No. 4 seed Clayton dropped only one set through his three matches and disposed of 13th seed Artem Vlasenko of St. John’s in straight sets (6-1, 6-3) in the round of 16 yesterday to reach the today’s quarterfinals. Previously, he handily defeated opponents from Stony Brook (6-3, 6-0) and Princeton (6-2, 5-7, 6-4). Ninth-seeded Nguyen...
...resale of the popular Dynamo football club. There are bound to be protracted legal challenges to come. Pinchuk and Akhmetov are said to be trying to work out a behind-the-scenes deal for the steel mill, but they have also filed their appeal. Pinchuk's lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko told the daily Kyiv Post last month: "I do not see the legal grounds on which to review [the Kryvorizhstal] sale." Under the circumstances, even Yushchenko's supporters worry that the question of how and whether to reprivatize Kryvorizhstal and other companies could be an unwelcome distraction. Yuri Klyuchkovsky...
...Anatoli Vlasenko, deputy director of the Caspian Research Institute of Fisheries, disputes reports of the beluga's demise. "The 90% depletion figure is a gross exaggeration on the part of the nervous media," he says. Still, the Russians have worked hard to sustain the remaining population with hatcheries and export quotas. Banning imports "would be the catalyst for a new round of poaching and illegal trade," says Armen Petrossian, head of the International Caviar Importers Association. In the U.S., the demand for beluga caviar has led not just to illegal imports of what some call black gold but also...