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Co się dzisiaj działo? #46 15.2.2022

Krykiet, mecz jednodniowy: Nowa Zelandia (275, Suzie Bates 106, Jess Kerr 4/35) pokonała Indie (213, Mithali Raj 59, Rajeshwari Gayakwad 2/28) 62 runami

mecz Twenty20: Australia (124/4, Glenn Maxwell 39, Kane Richardson 3/21) pokonała Sri Lankę (121/6, Dasun Shanaka 39*, Masheesh Theekshana 3/24)

NCAA: Davidson Wildcats-Duquesne Dukes 72:61

Turniej ITF w Oberhaching: Martyn Pawelski-Dan Added 5:7 5:7

Turniej ATP w Marsylii: Kamil Majchrzak/Stefano Travaglia-Edouard Roger Vasselin/Artem Sitak 7:5 6:7(3) 11-13

Szymon Walków/Jan Zieliński-Romain Arneodo/Andriej Wasilewskij 6:2 6:2

Turniej ITF w Altenkirchen: Urszula Radwańska-Jule Niemeier 6:2 7:6(3)

FIBA Europe Cup: Parma Perm-Legia Warszawa 67:78

CEV Liga Mistrzyń: Lokomotiv Kaliningrad-Developres Rzeszów 3:0

Conegliano-Chemik Police 3:0

Liga Europejska w piłce ręcznej: Wisła Płock-Pfadi Wintherthur 35:27

CEV Liga Mistrzów: Projekt Warszawa-Noliko Masseik 3:1

ULEB Eurocup: MoraBanc Andorra-Śląsk Wrocław 99:65

UEFA Liga Mistrzów: PSG-Real Madryt 1:0

Sporting CP-Manchester City 0:5

Campionato Sammarinese:

Cailungo-San Giovanni 1:1

Faetano-Folgore 0:1

Premier League Pool:

Mieszko Fortuński-Joshua Filler 4:5

Mieszko Fortuński-Alexander Kazakis 3:5

Igrzyska Olimpijskie w Pekinie, Dzień 10

Łyżwiarstwo szybkie, zawody drużynowe kobiet:

1. Kanada (Ivanie Blondin, Valerie Maltais, Alexa Scott, Isabelle Weidemann)

2. Japonia (Misaki Oshirigi, Ayano Sato, Miho Takagi, Nana Takagi)

3. Holandia (Antoinette de Jong, Marjike Groenewoud, Irene Schouten, Ireen Wust)

8. Polska (Kaja Bosiek, Natalia Czerwonka, Magdalena Czyszczoń, Andżelika Wójcik)

Kombinacja norweska, skocznia duża:

1. Joergen Graabak (NOR)

2. Jens Luraas Oftebro (NOR)

3. Akito Watabe (JPN)

35. Szczepan Kupczak

45. Andrzej Szechowicz

Łyżwiarstwo figurowe, program krótki solistek:

24. Jekatierina Kurakowa (awans do programu dowolnego)

Curling, turniej kobiet:

Chiny-Rosja 5:11

Szwecja-Dania 9:3

USA-Szwajcaria 6:9

WIelka Brytania-Japonia 10:4

turniej mężczyzn:

Rosja-Norwegia 5:12

Kanada-Chiny 10:8

Szwajcaria-USA 4:7

Szwecja-Dania 8:3

Szwecja-Wielka Brytania 6:7

Włochy-USA 10:4

Norwegia-Chiny 6:8

Rosja-Kanada 7:6

Hokej na lodzie, mecze play-off mężczyzn:

Słowacja-Niemcy 4:0

Dania-Łotwa 3:2

Czechy-Szwajcaria 2:4

Kanada-Chiny 7:2

Pozostałe konkurencje medalowe:

Zjazd kobiet:

1. Corinne Suter (SUI)

2. Sofia Goggia (ITA)

3. Nadia Delago (ITA)

Biathlon, sztafeta mężczyzn:

1. Norwegia (Sturla Holm Laegreid, Tarjei Boe, Johannes Boe, Vetle Christiansen)

2. Francja (Fabien Claude, Emilien Jacquelin, Simon Desthieux, Quentin Fillon Maillet)

3. Rosja (Said Karimulla Khalili, Alexander Loginov, Maxim Tsvetkov, Eduard Latypov)

Big air kobiet:

1. Anna Gasser (AUT)

2. Zoi Sadowski Synnott (NZL)

3. Kokomo Murase (JPN)

Narciarstwo dowolne, slopestyle kobiet:

1. Mathilde Gremaud (SUI)

2. Gu Ailing Eileen (CHN)

3. Kelly Sildaru (EST)

Big air mężczyzn:

1. Su Yiming (CHN)

2. Mons Roisland (NOR)

3. Max Parrot (CAN)

Bobsleje, męskie dwójki

1. Francesco Friedrich/Thorsten Margis (GER)

2. Johannes Lochner/Florian Bauer (GER)

3. Christoph Hafer/Matthias Sommer (GER)

Łyżwiarstwo szybkie, zawody drużynowe mężczyzn

1. Norwegia (Hallgeir Engerbraaten, Allan Dahl Johansson, Peder Kongshaug, Svere Lunde Pedersen)

2. Rosja (Danill Aldoshkin, Alexander Rumyantsev, Sergei Trofimow, Ruslan Zakharov)

3. USA (Ethan Cepuran, Casey Dawson, Emery Lehman, Joey Mantia)

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Teatrul de Artă București lansează Stagiunea brașoveană, cu două premiere: “Iepurele alb” – teatru de păpuși și “Extraconjugal” de Neil Simon

Sâmbătă, 29 ianuarie, Teatrul de Artă București lansează noua stagiune, la Brașov, cu două spectacole în premieră: „Iepurele alb”, teatru pentru copii și familie, de la ora 11.00, și „Extraconjugal” de Neil Simon, de la ora 19.00.

Sunt primele spectacole dintr-un program teatral lunar, conceput pentru Brașov, pentru întregul an 2022 și care a luat naștere din dorința de a aduce mai aproape de un public educat montări de excepție ale unor texte dramatice moderne sau clasice.

“E cel mai frumos spectacol pentru copii, pe care l-am văzut ca adult!” (Gabriela Tabacu)

 „Iepurele alb”, creație a actrițelor-păpușar Ana Crăciun Lambru și Lavinia Pop Coman, școlite și având experiență de lucru în Statele Unite ale Americii și în Rusia (cu celebrul artist păpușar Vladimir Zakharov), se adresează tuturor copiilor și sufletelor de copil cu vârste cuprinse între 4 și 110 ani.

Povestea sa fascinantă îi poartă imediat, pe micii și marii privitori, într-o lume magică, plină de candoare. La fiecare întâlnire, Iepurele alb îi descoperă cu sfială pe spectatori, și-i face prieteni, învață să aibă încredere, încearcă, plin de curaj, lucruri noi, se îndrăgostește, mereu cu pași mici, fiind aici și acum și prețuind emoția lucrurilor mărunte.

Spectacolul a fost invitat la nu mai puțin de cinci festivaluri de teatru:

***Izmir International Puppet Days, Turcia, martie 2020

***International Puppet Festival "Golden Sparkle", Serbia, mai 2020

***Festivalul Internațional de Teatru Fringe de la Beer Sheva, Israel, iulie 2020

***Festivalul de Teatru Piatra Neamț, 2019

***Festivalul Internaţional de Animaţie Gulliver, 2019

,,E fascinant să urmărești reacțiile celor mici la spectacol, să-i vezi cum intră tiptil în poveste și cum o trăiesc ei, cu toată intensitatea. (…) Printre clinchete de râs și înduioșări, copiii vor trăi o poveste despre prietenie, generozitate, iubire, visare și zbor, și câte și mai câte.” (Gabriela Hurezean, Muze și arme).

,,Iepurele Alb este un spectacol destinat celor mici, dar vă garantez că și cei mari vor fi cuceriți, pentru că este imposibil să nu te lași sedus(ă) de ochii aceia mici și negri, care capătă viață de la un moment la altul, fără să-ți dai seama prea bine de unde magia. E o artă să știi să construiești povești cu puține mijloace, dar folosite cu maximum de efecte. Iar ce fac Ana Crăciun Lambru și Lavinia Pop Coman nu te lasă să ieși din poveste decât atunci când ea se va fi sfârșit de scris. Așa că… luați în calcul un drum la Teatrul de Artă pentru a vedea Iepurele Alb!” (Nona Rapotan, Bookhub.ro).

,,Ce faci când simți că nu ți-ai trăit viața?”

BILETE la casieria Centrului Cultural Reduta. 

BILETE online:

mySTAGE: https://www.mystage.ro/spectacole/iepurele-alb-1489?af=41 

Eventbook: https://eventbook.ro/theater/bilete-iepurele-alb 

Eventim: https://www.eventim.ro/.../iepurele-alb-brasov.../event.html

„Extraconjugal” este cea mai recentă premieră a Teatrului de Artă București (septembrie 2021), o montare fresh a deliciosului text al lui Neil Simon, care tratează cu mult umor criza vârstei de mijloc.

Spectacolul spune povestea lui Barney Cashman, un bărbat însurat, gentil și fără experiență în adulter, care vrea să se alăture „revoluției sexuale” înainte de a fi prea târziu. Barney are puțin peste 40 de ani, o căsnicie frumoasă, doi copii și o afacere de succes, dar trece prin criza vârstei de mijloc. Și realizează că întreaga sa existență poate fi rezumată la cuvântul ”drăguț”. Iar ”drăguț” nu e suficient pentru el.

„Extraconjugal” îi are în distribuție pe Andreea Mateiu și George Constantinescu, iar regia este semnată de George Dogaru.

Spectacolul a fost recompensat cu două Premii pentru Cea mai bună actriță și un Premiu pentru Cea mai bună regie, la Festivalurile Comic 7B din cadrul Buzău Internațional Arts Festival, 2021 și FITIC – Festival Internațional de Teatru Independent, Constanța, 2021

 BILETE la casieria Centrului Cultural Reduta.

BILETE online:

mySTAGE: https://www.mystage.ro/spectacole/extraconjugal-2889?af=41 

Eventbook: https://eventbook.ro/theater/bilete-extraconjugal 

Eventim: https://www.eventim.ro/.../extraconjugal.../event.html

Teatrul de Artă București

Teatrul de Artă București este un teatru 100% independent și singurul din România, la ora actuală, care a câștigat un Grand Prix într-o competiție teatrală cu tradiție, din Rusia (Marele Premiu pentru Cel mai bun spectacol, acordat de juriu în unanimitate, pentru "Dureri fantomă" de Vasili Sigarev, la Festivalul Internațional de Dramaturgie Contemporană Kolyada Plays de la Ekaterinburg).

De peste 9 ani, Teatrul de Artă București, fondat de actorul brașovean George Constantinescu, își susține proiectele exclusiv din fonduri proprii și bucură publicul român din țară, dar și de peste hotare (Bruxelles, Koln, New York etc.), cu spectacole de teatru și ateliere de teatru pentru cursanți de toate vârstele.

Teatrul de Artă București este, de altfel, binecunoscut publicului brașovean, anul acesta fiind al cincilea an consecutiv în care vine cu spectacole la Brașov.

2022 este, însă, primul an pentru care Teatrul de Artă București a gândit o întreagă stagiune teatrală (ianuarie – decembrie 2022) pe care o lansează pe 29 ianuarie cu cele două spectacole de la Centrul Cultural Reduta.

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Best Photos from 2016 Olympics in Rio

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Simone Manuel reacts to becoming the first African-American woman to win gold in an individual swimming event, the 100m Freestyle.

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Russian City’s Dazzling New Soccer Stadium Outshines Its Team

KALININGRAD, Russia — Nikita I. Zakharov leads the fan club for the soccer team in this leafy, slow-paced provincial city, and yet he keeps a cleareyed view of its place in the wider world of soccer.

“We cannot really boast of soccer success,” he said mournfully. The team, Baltika, plays in a second-tier Russian league. In its 64-year history, it has won the championship once — in 1995, “the golden year!” exclaimed Mr. Zakharov — and came in second twice, in 1959 and 1961.

Its biggest win, it turns out, was not so much on the field as with a field. Rising out of a formerly undeveloped swampy area in the city, a gigantic, glistening $280 million stadium appeared this year, one of six new arenas Russia built for the World Cup.

It is a bumper crop of new stadiums that, even by World Cup standards, appear out of proportion with the small crowds drawn by local teams like Baltika, which will use the venues after the tournament.

Their construction, at a cumulative cost estimated at $11 billion along with related infrastructure, illustrates how sports, as with the oil and mining businesses, has become integral to how the Kremlin and Russia’s ultra-wealthy financiers, known as the oligarchs, do business together.

World Cup stadiums became a means to reward well-connected businessmen, said Ilya Shumanov, the deputy director of the anticorruption group Transparency International.

“Authoritarian regimes love megasports projects,” Mr. Shumanov said. “Huge sums are distributed from the budget. It’s bread and circuses at the same time.”

The lucrative deal in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland, went to the company of Aras Agalarov, who is one of Russia’s wealthiest men. Mr. Agalarov also had a commercial relationship with Donald J. Trump, having partnered with him in 2013 to host the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.

“The Agalarovs are very well connected, in Azerbaijan, in Russia and in the United States,” Mr. Shumanov said.

The stadium in Kaliningrad is among those that went to cities with no top-tier soccer team. In one instance, a stadium with 45,000 seats went up in Saransk, a city with a population of 297,000.

The designs of the new stadiums nod to local pride. In Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg, both port towns, the stadiums’ look hints at ships. Mastlike towers suspend the roofs. The flying-saucer-shaped Cosmos Arena appeared in Samara, a center of the space industry.

Kaliningrad’s residents have been scratching their heads over what to do with the stadium when the World Cup is over.

The 35,000-seat venue will host four tournament matches in June and then pass to team Baltika, which last year drew an average of 4,000 spectators to matches. These were low-key events, according to videos of the games, where tepid fans munched sesame seeds and watched their blue-and-white clad soccer heroes play and, sadly, often lose.

“There are just not so many soccer lovers here,” said Vadim Chaly, an associate professor of philosophy at Kaliningrad University, and an authority on Immanuel Kant, a city native from the time Kaliningrad was German and called Konigsberg.

The oversize stadium, Mr. Chaly said, would have flummoxed the philosopher, who in his “Critique of Pure Reason” wrote of the need to derive knowledge from the cues in the world around us.

“The idea of achieving some higher goal using enrichment as a motive is absolutely contrary to Kant,” Mr. Chaly said, referring to stated benefits of the World Cup stadiums beyond sports, like boosting Russia’s image internationally. “He always thought morality was the higher goal, nothing else.”

Zoya Bondarenko, a clerk at a convenience store near the new stadium, found it less perplexing.

Her door overlooks 200 acres of packed sand in the filled-in swamp, with the white, maritime-themed stadium in the distance, looking like a beached cruise ship.

“The Forbes list is growing longer,” she said nonchalantly of the scene, and the businessmen making money here.

Anton A. Alikhanov, the regional governor, said in an interview that the stadium and related soccer spending will only benefit Kaliningrad. It helped pay for new ribbons of asphalt on roads, an airport upgrade and the filling of swampland.

“The island was a swamp where nothing but cattails grew,” he said. “If we hadn’t built a stadium, we would never have built anything there.”

And Mr. Alikhanov praised the work of Mr. Agalarov’s company, Crocus Group. Crocus, which won the contract in 2014, did not reply to a request for comment on the stadium work.

Adding to the perplexity is the fact that Kaliningrad already had a stadium.

Opened in 1900, it is one of the oldest soccer arenas in Europe. It was first named after the German philanthropist Walter Simon, who donated money for its construction. As Mr. Simon was Jewish, the Nazis renamed it after a Nazi and it became Erich Koch Arena. Then the Soviets, who tried to scrub the region of its German past, renamed it again, to Baltika Stadium.

The site’s layered history is evident. Metal garlands festooning the stadium once held swastikas; the Soviet Union knocked out the Nazi symbols but kept the nonpolitical decorative elements.

Until 1991, when some bleachers were removed to allow access to a used car lot, it seated 22,000 people. The lot has since closed, but the seats, unneeded in any case, were never returned.

Refurbishing this stadium would have been far cheaper, critics say. But saving money on sports construction has not been the goal in recent years, according to a study by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, a group led by the opposition politician Aleksei Navalny.

It found that 19 of 24 major construction contracts for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi went to companies with ties to senior officials, including a company led by a former judo sparring partner of President Vladimir V. Putin. Construction costs, on average, ran four times higher than initial estimates. Mr. Navalny’s group calculated that each Olympic event cost $510 million to prepare.

“Ideally, the Olympic venues should have been constructed only by experienced companies with the lowest price quotations and all necessary financial and operating resources,” the study said.

Still, soccer fans could not be more pleased. After lean years of little recognition for team Baltika, they feel the tide turning.

Mr. Zakharov runs the fan club from an office with a cracked linoleum floor, and decorated with a “Miss Baltika” calendar, open to Miss May, a scantily clad brunette.

He said a group of about 100 people from his fan club turn out at every game, stomping and chanting the team’s rallying cry: “From Moscow to the Baltic, there is no team as strong as Baltika!”

They will now show up to chant at the new stadium, he said.

“I’m really happy,” he said. “We didn’t build. But we will use it.”

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Russian City’s Dazzling New Soccer Stadium Outshines Its Team

KALININGRAD, Russia — Nikita I. Zakharov leads the fan club for the soccer team in this leafy, slow-paced provincial city, and yet he keeps a cleareyed view of its place in the wider world of soccer.

“We cannot really boast of soccer success,” he said mournfully. The team, Baltika, plays in a second-tier Russian league. In its 64-year history, it has won the championship once — in 1995, “the golden year!” exclaimed Mr. Zakharov — and came in second twice, in 1959 and 1961.

Its biggest win, it turns out, was not so much on the field as with a field. Rising out of a formerly undeveloped swampy area in the city, a gigantic, glistening $280 million stadium appeared this year, one of six new arenas Russia built for the World Cup.

It is a bumper crop of new stadiums that, even by World Cup standards, appear out of proportion with the small crowds drawn by local teams like Baltika, which will use the venues after the tournament.

Their construction, at a cumulative cost estimated at $11 billion along with related infrastructure, illustrates how sports, as with the oil and mining businesses, has become integral to how the Kremlin and Russia’s ultra-wealthy financiers, known as the oligarchs, do business together.

World Cup stadiums became a means to reward well-connected businessmen, said Ilya Shumanov, the deputy director of the anticorruption group Transparency International.

“Authoritarian regimes love megasports projects,” Mr. Shumanov said. “Huge sums are distributed from the budget. It’s bread and circuses at the same time.”

The lucrative deal in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland, went to the company of Aras Agalarov, who is one of Russia’s wealthiest men. Mr. Agalarov also had a commercial relationship with Donald J. Trump, having partnered with him in 2013 to host the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.

“The Agalarovs are very well connected, in Azerbaijan, in Russia and in the United States,” Mr. Shumanov said.

The stadium in Kaliningrad is among those that went to cities with no top-tier soccer team. In one instance, a stadium with 45,000 seats went up in Saransk, a city with a population of 297,000.

The designs of the new stadiums nod to local pride. In Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg, both port towns, the stadiums’ look hints at ships. Mastlike towers suspend the roofs. The flying-saucer-shaped Cosmos Arena appeared in Samara, a center of the space industry.

Kaliningrad’s residents have been scratching their heads over what to do with the stadium when the World Cup is over.

The 35,000-seat venue will host four tournament matches in June and then pass to team Baltika, which last year drew an average of 4,000 spectators to matches. These were low-key events, according to videos of the games, where tepid fans munched sesame seeds and watched their blue-and-white clad soccer heroes play and, sadly, often lose.

“There are just not so many soccer lovers here,” said Vadim Chaly, an associate professor of philosophy at Kaliningrad University, and an authority on Immanuel Kant, a city native from the time Kaliningrad was German and called Konigsberg.

The oversize stadium, Mr. Chaly said, would have flummoxed the philosopher, who in his “Critique of Pure Reason” wrote of the need to derive knowledge from the cues in the world around us.

“The idea of achieving some higher goal using enrichment as a motive is absolutely contrary to Kant,” Mr. Chaly said, referring to stated benefits of the World Cup stadiums beyond sports, like boosting Russia’s image internationally. “He always thought morality was the higher goal, nothing else.”

Zoya Bondarenko, a clerk at a convenience store near the new stadium, found it less perplexing.

Her door overlooks 200 acres of packed sand in the filled-in swamp, with the white, maritime-themed stadium in the distance, looking like a beached cruise ship.

“The Forbes list is growing longer,” she said nonchalantly of the scene, and the businessmen making money here.

Anton A. Alikhanov, the regional governor, said in an interview that the stadium and related soccer spending will only benefit Kaliningrad. It helped pay for new ribbons of asphalt on roads, an airport upgrade and the filling of swampland.

“The island was a swamp where nothing but cattails grew,” he said. “If we hadn’t built a stadium, we would never have built anything there.”

And Mr. Alikhanov praised the work of Mr. Agalarov’s company, Crocus Group. Crocus, which won the contract in 2014, did not reply to a request for comment on the stadium work.

Adding to the perplexity is the fact that Kaliningrad already had a stadium.

Opened in 1900, it is one of the oldest soccer arenas in Europe. It was first named after the German philanthropist Walter Simon, who donated money for its construction. As Mr. Simon was Jewish, the Nazis renamed it after a Nazi and it became Erich Koch Arena. Then the Soviets, who tried to scrub the region of its German past, renamed it again, to Baltika Stadium.

The site’s layered history is evident. Metal garlands festooning the stadium once held swastikas; the Soviet Union knocked out the Nazi symbols but kept the nonpolitical decorative elements.

Until 1991, when some bleachers were removed to allow access to a used car lot, it seated 22,000 people. The lot has since closed, but the seats, unneeded in any case, were never returned.

Refurbishing this stadium would have been far cheaper, critics say. But saving money on sports construction has not been the goal in recent years, according to a study by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, a group led by the opposition politician Aleksei Navalny.

It found that 19 of 24 major construction contracts for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi went to companies with ties to senior officials, including a company led by a former judo sparring partner of President Vladimir V. Putin. Construction costs, on average, ran four times higher than initial estimates. Mr. Navalny’s group calculated that each Olympic event cost $510 million to prepare.

“Ideally, the Olympic venues should have been constructed only by experienced companies with the lowest price quotations and all necessary financial and operating resources,” the study said.

Still, soccer fans could not be more pleased. After lean years of little recognition for team Baltika, they feel the tide turning.

Mr. Zakharov runs the fan club from an office with a cracked linoleum floor, and decorated with a “Miss Baltika” calendar, open to Miss May, a scantily clad brunette.

He said a group of about 100 people from his fan club turn out at every game, stomping and chanting the team’s rallying cry: “From Moscow to the Baltic, there is no team as strong as Baltika!”

They will now show up to chant at the new stadium, he said.

“I’m really happy,” he said. “We didn’t build. But we will use it.”

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Russian City’s Dazzling New Soccer Stadium Outshines Its Team

KALININGRAD, Russia — Nikita I. Zakharov leads the fan club for the soccer team in this leafy, slow-paced provincial city, and yet he keeps a cleareyed view of its place in the wider world of soccer.

“We cannot really boast of soccer success,” he said mournfully. The team, Baltika, plays in a second-tier Russian league. In its 64-year history, it has won the championship once — in 1995, “the golden year!” exclaimed Mr. Zakharov — and came in second twice, in 1959 and 1961.

Its biggest win, it turns out, was not so much on the field as with a field. Rising out of a formerly undeveloped swampy area in the city, a gigantic, glistening $280 million stadium appeared this year, one of six new arenas Russia built for the World Cup.

It is a bumper crop of new stadiums that, even by World Cup standards, appear out of proportion with the small crowds drawn by local teams like Baltika, which will use the venues after the tournament.

Their construction, at a cumulative cost estimated at $11 billion along with related infrastructure, illustrates how sports, as with the oil and mining businesses, has become integral to how the Kremlin and Russia’s ultra-wealthy financiers, known as the oligarchs, do business together.

World Cup stadiums became a means to reward well-connected businessmen, said Ilya Shumanov, the deputy director of the anticorruption group Transparency International.

“Authoritarian regimes love megasports projects,” Mr. Shumanov said. “Huge sums are distributed from the budget. It’s bread and circuses at the same time.”

The lucrative deal in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave between Lithuania and Poland, went to the company of Aras Agalarov, who is one of Russia’s wealthiest men. Mr. Agalarov also had a commercial relationship with Donald J. Trump, having partnered with him in 2013 to host the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow.

“The Agalarovs are very well connected, in Azerbaijan, in Russia and in the United States,” Mr. Shumanov said.

The stadium in Kaliningrad is among those that went to cities with no top-tier soccer team. In one instance, a stadium with 45,000 seats went up in Saransk, a city with a population of 297,000.

The designs of the new stadiums nod to local pride. In Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg, both port towns, the stadiums’ look hints at ships. Mastlike towers suspend the roofs. The flying-saucer-shaped Cosmos Arena appeared in Samara, a center of the space industry.

Kaliningrad’s residents have been scratching their heads over what to do with the stadium when the World Cup is over.

The 35,000-seat venue will host four tournament matches in June and then pass to team Baltika, which last year drew an average of 4,000 spectators to matches. These were low-key events, according to videos of the games, where tepid fans munched sesame seeds and watched their blue-and-white clad soccer heroes play and, sadly, often lose.

“There are just not so many soccer lovers here,” said Vadim Chaly, an associate professor of philosophy at Kaliningrad University, and an authority on Immanuel Kant, a city native from the time Kaliningrad was German and called Konigsberg.

The oversize stadium, Mr. Chaly said, would have flummoxed the philosopher, who in his “Critique of Pure Reason” wrote of the need to derive knowledge from the cues in the world around us.

“The idea of achieving some higher goal using enrichment as a motive is absolutely contrary to Kant,” Mr. Chaly said, referring to stated benefits of the World Cup stadiums beyond sports, like boosting Russia’s image internationally. “He always thought morality was the higher goal, nothing else.”

Zoya Bondarenko, a clerk at a convenience store near the new stadium, found it less perplexing.

Her door overlooks 200 acres of packed sand in the filled-in swamp, with the white, maritime-themed stadium in the distance, looking like a beached cruise ship.

“The Forbes list is growing longer,” she said nonchalantly of the scene, and the businessmen making money here.

Anton A. Alikhanov, the regional governor, said in an interview that the stadium and related soccer spending will only benefit Kaliningrad. It helped pay for new ribbons of asphalt on roads, an airport upgrade and the filling of swampland.

“The island was a swamp where nothing but cattails grew,” he said. “If we hadn’t built a stadium, we would never have built anything there.”

And Mr. Alikhanov praised the work of Mr. Agalarov’s company, Crocus Group. Crocus, which won the contract in 2014, did not reply to a request for comment on the stadium work.

Adding to the perplexity is the fact that Kaliningrad already had a stadium.

Opened in 1900, it is one of the oldest soccer arenas in Europe. It was first named after the German philanthropist Walter Simon, who donated money for its construction. As Mr. Simon was Jewish, the Nazis renamed it after a Nazi and it became Erich Koch Arena. Then the Soviets, who tried to scrub the region of its German past, renamed it again, to Baltika Stadium.

The site’s layered history is evident. Metal garlands festooning the stadium once held swastikas; the Soviet Union knocked out the Nazi symbols but kept the nonpolitical decorative elements.

Until 1991, when some bleachers were removed to allow access to a used car lot, it seated 22,000 people. The lot has since closed, but the seats, unneeded in any case, were never returned.

Refurbishing this stadium would have been far cheaper, critics say. But saving money on sports construction has not been the goal in recent years, according to a study by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, a group led by the opposition politician Aleksei Navalny.

It found that 19 of 24 major construction contracts for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi went to companies with ties to senior officials, including a company led by a former judo sparring partner of President Vladimir V. Putin. Construction costs, on average, ran four times higher than initial estimates. Mr. Navalny’s group calculated that each Olympic event cost $510 million to prepare.

“Ideally, the Olympic venues should have been constructed only by experienced companies with the lowest price quotations and all necessary financial and operating resources,” the study said.

Still, soccer fans could not be more pleased. After lean years of little recognition for team Baltika, they feel the tide turning.

Mr. Zakharov runs the fan club from an office with a cracked linoleum floor, and decorated with a “Miss Baltika” calendar, open to Miss May, a scantily clad brunette.

He said a group of about 100 people from his fan club turn out at every game, stomping and chanting the team’s rallying cry: “From Moscow to the Baltic, there is no team as strong as Baltika!”

They will now show up to chant at the new stadium, he said.

“I’m really happy,” he said. “We didn’t build. But we will use it.”

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Music Review - Melodrama by Lorde

                               A baby Lorde. (Photo by Garth Badger)

        When 17-year-old Ella Yelich-O’Connor – better known by her stage name Lorde – released her debut EP The Love Club in 2013, the world wasn’t ready. The young New Zealander immediately caught the attention of the masses with her single “Royals”. The low, hypnotic voice; the enticing beat; the choir echoing and harmonizing throughout the verses and chorus. Add in her offbeat style and knack for dark imagery in the lyrics and you’ve got yourself an unlikely superstar. Her appearance was almost as unusual as her music. The young girl constantly utilized the drama of dark lipstick and the mysteriousness of dark clothing. YouTube exploded with videos showing how to achieve her long, thick, cascading curls and sharp winged eyeliner from the “Royals” music video. This EP release was followed up with the release of her debut album Pure Heroine on September 27th, 2013. The album became the anthem of misunderstood young women everywhere. The world loved and embraced Lorde. We gave her a Grammy, a platinum album, and an endless amount of attention and adoration.

And then, she left.

Lorde disappeared when the world needed her most. No one could say for sure exactly where she was, what she was doing, who she was with. Some theorized Taylor Swift was holding her hostage in her basement; others said that she was growing up and needed time out of the spotlight, that the creative process can’t happen in a single year and Lorde isn’t the kind of artist to just spit out an album once a year because she’s a true artist and true artistry takes time to perfect. (I, for one, wholeheartedly believed in the Taylor Swift kidnapping theory. She has sketchy eyes.) She was still posting on social media, yes, but none of it had anything to do with new music. While she was gone, she made many subtle changes that went unnoticed on the global radar - her relationship with her then-boyfriend quietly ended; she cut off those famous long, curly locks; her image changed from dark to light. Ella was reinventing herself not only image-wise but also her sound. She was growing and gosh darn it, she was going to make sure that we followed her journey of self-discovery with her. She took the time to write out what was happening and put it into an album for us, an album appropriately titled Melodrama.

                                            (Photo by Arkan Zakharov)

So, here I am. A devout fan of this alternative beauty. I snatched up Melodrama the second this baby was released and I listened the shit out of it. Without further ado, here are my thoughts on this auditory masterpiece. (Songs included because I love you and want to bless your ears as much as Lorde blessed mine.)

“Green Light” Thoughts: This song is an excellent start to the album. At first, the flow of the words with the instrumental can be a bit disorienting because it doesn’t follow the typical time signature of most songs but once those piano keys start, the song goes off. Her heart is broken but she is ready to dance her pants off. Standout lyrics: ‘Cause honey I’ll come get my things but I can’t let go / Oh I wish I could get my things and just let go Playlist you would add this to: You Broke My Heart, Please Let Me Go

“Sober” Thoughts: Once when I was 18 my mom and I drank wine together and watched Moana and I was feeling slightly buzzed and this song reminds me of that moment, except this is a lot more doom-and-gloom. It’s about being under the influence but without a lot of the fun, like when you’re so high and you KNOW you’re so high but you want to stop being so high. The entire time in the background she chants “Night, midnight, lose my mind” and boy howdy is she losing it, but to an excellent beat. Her voice conveys such strong emotions throughout the entire song, it’s enchanting. Standout lyrics: Oh God, I’m clean out of air in my lungs / It’s all gone, played it so nonchalant / It’s time we dance with the truth Playlist you would add this to: Holy Shit I Smoked Way Too Much and I Need to Lie Down Someone Find Me a Dog to Pet

“Homemade Dynamite” Thoughts: Lorde is a huge fan of harmonizing and layering her own voice, especially in the pre-chorus and chorus and this song is no different from that formula she tends to follow. As a result, the hook definitely will get stuck in your head and will inspire you to “blow shit up”. It certainly inspired me. (No it didn’t. I wanted to sound edgy.) Honestly, this song is not one of my favorites and I prefer the remix featuring Khalid, SZA, and Post Malone (that you can listen to here) but it isn’t a song I dislike, ya feel? Standout lyrics: Don’t know you super well / But I think that you might be the same as me / Behave abnormally / Let’s let things come out of the woodwork / I’ll give you my best side, tell you all my best lies Playlist you would add this to: Songs that Remind Me of That One Time I Accidentally Exploded a Beaker in Chemistry Class

“The Louvre” Thoughts: The Louvre is an angelic song. It’s soft and sweet and embodies springtime in Paris and pure childish happiness. It makes me want to flounce around a wildflower meadow at the base of Mount Rainier. In one word, this song is cute. The guitar in the background of the verses is simple, but just enough. I really do adore this song. Sure, she’s also speaking about her happiness fading and how it’s like old art hanging in a museum, but it’s nice and if you don’t focus too hard you would have no problem calling this an alternative-pop love song. I would like to hear this performed with an orchestra in the background; it would be transcendent. Standout lyrics: But lover, you’re the one to blame, all that you’re doing / Can you hear the violence? / Megaphone to my chest / Broadcast the boom, boom, boom and make ‘em all dance to it Playlist that you would add this to: Art Museum Visit Super Hype Alternative Exciting I Love Art Hell Yeah

“Liability” Thoughts: Heartbreak 101, ladies and gentlemen. That happiness from the song before has completely vanished; Ella is really hurting in this. A strong opposition to the heavy house party beats of the previous songs, a piano carries the instrumental for this slow, mournful ballad with lyrics that are painfully raw and honest. I can relate to these lyrics and the first time I heard it a single tear reminiscent of Cry Baby rolled down my cheek. If your heart has been broken and you want a good ol’ fashioned weep this is the song for you. Standout lyrics: I know that it’s exciting / Running through the night, but / Every perfect summer’s eating me alive / Until you’re gone Playlist that you would add this to: Not Gonna Lie, I Thought This Would be More Gay

“Hard Feelings/Loveless” Thoughts: This. Fucking. Song. Y’all, this has been my absolute all-time favorite song from the moment I heard it. It’s split into two parts, Hard Feelings and Loveless. Much like Liability, she sings of heartbreak in Hard Feelings, but more in the stage where you are on the verge of being able to move on from this and enter a new chapter of your life. It’s delicate and brings images of sitting on the floor in a dark room illuminated by candles, cutting flowers so you bring a new sense of life into the home you’re learning to build without your lover by your side. Loveless completely flips the script - there is a short spoken intro by Paul Simon before it launches into the beat and the chanting that will stick in your head all day: “We’re L-O-V-E-L-E-S-S / Generation / All fuckin’ our lovers heads / Generation.” Standout lyrics: I light all the candles / Cut flowers for all my rooms / I care for myself the way I used to care about you Playlist that you would add this to: I’m Cryign and I Can’at OTYpe Correnclty Oh GmY GD

“Sober II (Melodrama)” Thoughts: I’m guessing Lorde went to a party, or threw one herself and right in the middle of it she realized how sick she was of the aesthetic of parties. Like, she literally says “Gotta wonder why we bother?” Nonetheless, this song is kind of a melancholic, slow journey accompanied by dramatic string instruments that you tack onto the back of Sober (this is entitled Sober II after all) when she’s coming off of her high and having an increasingly-large existential crisis. Standout lyrics: All the terror and the horror / Gotta wonder why we bother? / All the glamour and the drama / And the fuckin’ melodrama / All the gunfights and the limelights / And the holy sick divine nights Playlist that you would add this to: I Watched Romeo + Juliet Once and Now I Wish I Was Claire Danes

“Writer In the Dark” Thoughts: The grand piano makes its grand return in this tune. Do not underestimate Ella in this song, folks; she’s sad but she’s turning that emotion into anger. This ballad is stripped back and vocally-powerful. She warns her audience that falling in love and breaking the heart of a writer will come back to bite you in the ass because writers will immortalize you with their words and melodies, and you may not like the outcome. Ouch. Maybe the violins at the end will soothe the wounds she just bit into your skin with her words. Standout lyrics: I am my mother’s child / I’ll love you ‘til my breathing stops / I’ll love you ‘til you call the cops on me Playlist you would add this to: Songs That Could Have Been on the Kill Bill, Vol. 1 Soundtrack

“Supercut” Thoughts: Awaken, my love! Lorde sees the light in this song. She realizes that idolizing a relationship does nothing but cause pain when the reality of it all fails to live up to the expectations built in her head. Us listeners are privileged enough to follow along with her journey and hear her reach this discovery. There’s a beat that refuses to quit and demands your attention in the background of the song that will, like all her songs, inevitably get stuck in your head. Arguably the best part of the song is the bridge when her voice is but an echo, stating what I think are the standout lyrics; she ends this with a loud yell. It’s such a small moment in the song but it stands out to me - honestly, it’s mostly that yell. It’s like when you feel so much in one moment all you can do is scream. I feel ya, Lorde. Standout lyrics: In my head I do everything right / When you call I forgive, and not fight / All the moments I play in the dark / Wild and fluorescent, come home to my heart Playlist you would add this to: It’s Summer, I Got My Hat On Backwards and It’s Time to Frickin Party

“Liability (Reprise)” Thoughts: This song is like a sweet caress on the cheek from the hand of healing. Typically, a reprise is the same instrumental from an earlier song but the lyrics have changed to fit the epiphany whoever is singing has had; this is Lorde’s epiphany. The instrumental has changed in this song - it’s more of a soft keyboard against a periodic metronome-like beat and Lorde’s choir of Lorde. In fact, the only thing from Liability this song has is the echo of the word liability but in this instance she is speaking to herself saying that she is not a liability, no, she is much more than this. It’s a sweet song of self-assurance. Standout lyrics: And maybe all this is the party / Maybe the tears and the highs we breathe / Oh, no / And maybe all this is the party / Maybe we just do it violently / But you’re not what you thought you were Playlist you would add this to: I’m Broken Right Now, but This Too Shall Pass

“Perfect Places” Thoughts: Aaaand our favorite party girl is back! This is the end of an emotional melodramatic rollercoaster and it’s the perfect sendoff. The entire song is spent split between a low and high harmony and it creates a pleasing blend to listen to. I don’t think anyone can really resist when she sings with that low, sultry rasp. Perhaps one of the most fun parts of the song is right before the first chorus when she makes a sound, a slight chh-chh. Singing along with that makes the song one of my favorites. Perfect Places perfectly encaptures how it feels being young and 19 and unsure of where you’re going in life but you’re at a party so you might as well party anyway and forget about your responsibilities for a minute. Standout lyrics: I hate the headlines and the weather / I’m 19 and I’m on fire / But when we’re dancing, I’m alright / It’s just another graceless night Playlist you would add this to: I’m Hyperaware of My Youth and How I Cannot Control Time and It Gives Me an Existential Crisis but Hey, Let’s Party Anyway !

Overall, this album gave birth to me. I cannot stress how much I love it. I’m at a really weird place in my life right now where I’m unsure about so many things in my future and it’s stressful as hell - I’ve had many emotional nights in my dorm room where I feel so tiny and alone in this whole wide world. The thing about Lorde is that she feels this way too, and she put it into an album for me. She’s only a couple of years older than me and a lot of this album was being put together when she was my age. She gets me. One of the best things for a young woman at this stage of life is being able to find someone, something to relate to and grasping onto that so you don’t feel so insane and Ella gave that to me. She’s given me a timeless album that I can listen to again and again and not grow sick of because I know what she means. She’s saying everything so I don’t have to and I am endlessly grateful to her that she gave me such a meaningful piece of art that I know I’ll cherish for a long, long time.

Emotions aside - she’s coming to Seattle in March! I’ll be there! Definitely crying, definitely dancing. She’ll be on tour with frickin Run The Jewels and Tove Styrke, performing March 9th at Key Arena. Tickets range from $35 to $96 and they are still on sale if you click this link right here. I hope to see you all there.

Camryn Del Donno

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