Insufficient funds mana nak beli pil cytotec James’s first experience of the communist bloc had been in the period 1959-62, when he had served as First Secretary and Cultural Attach茅 in Moscow. A fluent Russian speaker, in 1960 he helped to draw up a British-Soviet cultural agreement, under which in 1961 the Royal Ballet, with Margot Fonteyn, came to perform in Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev (the Bolshoi later made a return visit). There was also a major theatre exchange; and the London Philharmonic came on a similar tour, conducted by Malcolm Sargent.
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