Funds drive to save Bolshoi

Paris - UNESCO, the main UN agency for arts and culture, said yesterday it would start an international fund-raising drive to…

Paris - UNESCO, the main UN agency for arts and culture, said yesterday it would start an international fund-raising drive to raise £255 million to renovate Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre. It said two Bolshoi directors would meet officials of the Paris-based agency this week to discuss the work needed on the dilapidated 142year-old building.

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