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TVDRAMA Russian Classics Reinvented ADVERTISEMENT Period dramas and film versions of classic novels have long been hallmarks of Russia Television and Radio’s catalog, and the genres remain in high demand globally, according to Julia Matyash, director of Sovtelexport. “Period drama maintains its position as one of the leading genres on the international market,” Matyash says. “Last year, it had the most success.” The epic historical production Ekaterina, including seasons one and two...

New Sauk Rapids summer concert series performer lineup announced Times staff report View Comments SAUK RAPIDS — The City of Sauk Rapids has announced the lineup for 10 weeks of music at Sauk Rapids new Southside Park.  The new music series, called Rock the Riverside, will start July 1 and conclude Sept. 2. Each Thursday night performance will feature an hour-long opening act, then a 2 1/2-hour headliner performance.  Heres the lineup, as published in the citys summer newsletter: July 1: Pa...

The American Rose Society and American Rose Center will dedicate new gardens within the ongoing Great Garden Restoration Project on June 5.

Book review: Novelizing Taiwan’s White Terror Our reviewer says that this is the best book of any kind, fiction or non-fiction, about this dark period in Taiwan’s history By Bradley Winterton / Contributing reporter Prison books are a semi-major literary genre. Works such as Solzhenitsyn’s The First Circle, flanked by One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, are classics, with Dickens, Genet and Nelson Mandela also featuring. Most of them are at least partly autobiographical, and Tehpen ...

Whatever injustices he may have endured in his career, Cornel West is still part of the privileged class in academia.

TVEUROPE WorldScreenings: Russia Television and Radio/Sovtelexport ADVERTISEMENT Sovtelexport has been representing Russia’s largest media company, Russia Television and Radio, in the international content distribution market for over 20 years. “Major industry players trust our vast experience in the field and impeccable reputation,” says Julia Matyash, director of Sovtelexport. “Our wide multi-genre catalog filled with high-quality content allows us to know what project to offer to ev...

February 3, 2021 The Plastics division of rigid packaging converter Nampak is to continue consolidating sites this year as it attempts to improve the competitiveness of its business. The South African company posted an impairment of R424 million ($28.4m) for the division in 2020 on the back of the global pandemic. After a strong start to last year,… TO CONTINUE READING PLEASE SUBSCRIBE OR LOGIN

Alexander Solzhenitsyn Takes On The Progressives January 29, 2021 If there is one thing that 2020 has taught me, it is that the real political and cultural divide in our country is not between Republicans and Democrats, or even conservatives and liberals, but between traditionalists and progressives. At the core of progressivism is not the optimistic American belief that things are improving and that our children can live better lives than we did, but the belief that man is a perfectible produc...

Photo Credit: Hexcel Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn., U.S.) announced on Dec. 14 that the scope of its long-term supplier contract with Safran S.A. (Paris, France) has been expanded to include advanced composite materials for a broader range of commercial aerospace applications. “This contract expansion is the result of a successful, collaborative relationship between Safran and Hexcel that started more than 35 years ago to serve the aerospace industry,” says Thierry Merlot, president Aerosp...

December 14, 2020 STAMFORD, Conn. — December 14, 2020 — Hexcel Corp. announced today that the scope of its long-term supplier contract with Safran S.A. has been expanded to include advanced composite materials for a broader range of commercial aerospace applications. For more than three decades, Hexcel has been a trusted, leading supplier of high-performance, advanced composites such as carbon fiber, adhesives, prepregs, dry fabrics, and honeycomb core to Safran programs. Since 2013, Hexcel...