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Daily News… TOP BALLERINA QUITS RUSSIA FOR NEW CHALLENGE IN LONDON One of Russia’s biggest female ballet stars is leaving her full time job at a Saint Petersburg theatre to join London’s Royal Ballet, in the latest of a string of convulsions to hit the Russian dance world. Natalia Osipova told a Russian newspaper Monday she had been given an offer she «could not refuse» to be a principal dancer at Covent Garden and would from now on only appear as a guest soloist at the Mikhailovsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. Osipova and fellow ballet star Ivan Vasiliev, her partner on and off stage, had astonished critics in November 2011 when they quit the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow for the far smaller Mikhailovsky. But now Osipova, regarded by some critics as the greatest Russian dancer currently performing, will be dancing full time at Covent Garden. To the surprise of many, Vasiliev will not be joining her. «At the end I received an offer that I could not refuse,» Osipova told the Kommersant daily in an interview, saying the decision was «above all linked to the repertoire» danced by the London company. «I will now be a guest ballerina at the Mikhailovsky, we will break the five year contract (signed in November 2011) and agree another one,» she added. The departure of Osipova and Vasiliev in 2011 from the Bolshoi -- where they had become its most bankable stars -- had already left the Moscow company reeling. It also heralded a ghastly period for the Bolshoi which culminated in an the acid attack on its director Sergei Filin, a crime over which leading dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko has now been accused. Osipova told Kommersant she did not expect she would see any repeat of the Bolshoi’s notorious internal intrigues in London. «In Britain all promises and conditions are put down on paper -- and not like what happens in Russia where everything is words.
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International News… WHO ATE THE FRENCH CAMEL ? The camel that grateful townsfolk in Mali presented to President Francois Hollande for sending in French troops to chase away Islamist extremists has likely been eaten by the family that was supposed to be looking after it in Timbuktu. French defence officials said they were informed of the beast’s ignominious demise during a visit to the war-torn African state last month. The camel caused Hollande some embarrassment when it was presented to him on February 3 in Timbuktu : the animal bleated and shied away as he tried to caress it.
CANNABIS MAYONNAISE FRIES A chain of Dutch chip shops is to start offering cannabis mayonnaise on their fries, but the resulting snack will not give you the munchies or make you high. «I had the idea because I smell the cannabis coming from the coffee shop opposite my chip shop in Amsterdam every day,» Manneken Pis chip shop chain owner Albert van Beek told AFP. Unlike the cannabis sold in Dutch coffee shops, the mayonnaise will contain none of the active ingredient THC. «It’s just about the taste, we specialise in sauces and we constantly want to diversify,» Van Beek said.
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