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9th September 2011

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by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

Andy Warhol and Ukraine

To the Mironova Gallery in Kyiv for the opening of the exhibition “Pop Art and its Kings”, featuring rare, recently rediscovered 1963 and 1964 photos of cult pop artists Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana by the photographer William John Kennedy.  The black and white pictures are fascinating, showing the two artists on the eve of their […]

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28th March 2011 Bucharest, Romania

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by Raluca Bragarea

Head of Communications, Bucharest

People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care

A powerful statement from one of my role models, leadership educator John Maxwell. I was one of the approximately 1,000 people who attended his leadership seminar in Bucharest last Wednesday, 23 March. A rare opportunity to see (and shake hands with!) the author of many of my favourite books on personal development. I hear often […]

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7th March 2011

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by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

My Welsh Great-Grandfather

1 March is St David’s Day, named after the patron saint of Wales who died in 589.  I’m part-Welsh: my great-grandfather John Derfel (photo below) came from the the town of Llanderfel in north Wales and was the son of the Welsh poet and political writer Robert Jones Derfel (for the Welsh-language Wikipedia entry, click here). […]

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