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old books and old buildings, still of some significance but destined to continual reduction and, moreover, increasingly highlighted and classified to suit the spectacle’s requirements, there remains nothing, in culture or nature, which has not been transformed, and polluted, according to the means and

mobilizing a private army to defend his majority control over Naftogaz Ukraine and a more sustained effort by the President and allies to curtail his power. Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was appointed as head of Odessa oblast on May 30, 2015 with great fanfare and media spectacle. His goal

given of his image and image-making. Whatever else happens in Russian politics one of the enduring legacies of the Putin era will be the personalization of politics as spectacle (as opposed to the personalization of politics as patrimonialism; which is a Russian constant). Even the opposition is in on

the hands of an evil stepmother, was turned into a spectacle of which Gol'd- faden never dreamed. Granovskii was drawn to Gol'dfaden's melodrama by its folk character. Under the dross of lacrymose sentimentality there was gold of folk humor, folk speech, folk tradition. Granovskii retained the fast

Moscow Club of the Nobility, where Pyatnitsky tried to reduce the jarring spectacle of peasants performing on an indoor stage by what he called the scenic method- replicating a village street and erecting cabins right on the stage in a familiar attempt to de-theatricalize by means of realistic sets. Some