Articles tagged: #Gstaad

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«Music as an Antidote to Chaos», or Three Days in Gstaad
03.07.2026

At the beginning of the year, I wrote about the forthcoming 70th anniversary edition of the Menuhin Festival Gstaad: its new Artistic Director Daniel Hope, its ambitious and wide-ranging programme, its impressive roster of living legends and rising stars, and the launch of the Summit, the first attempt by a classical music festival to host a forum dedicated to discussing the future. (Incidentally, for health reasons, Zubin Mehta will unfortunately be unable to participate in the festival’s opening concerts on 16 and 17 July.

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Nadia Sikorsky

Nadia Sikorsky grew up in Moscow where she obtained a master's degree in journalism and a doctorate in history from Moscow State University. After 13 years at UNESCO, in Paris and then in Geneva, and having served as director of communications at Green Cross International founded by Mikhail Gorbachev, she developed NashaGazeta.ch, the first online Russian-language daily newspaper, launched in 2007.

In 2022, she found herself among those who, according to Le Temps editorial board, "significantly contributed to the success of French-speaking Switzerland," thus appearing among opinion makers and economic, political, scientific and cultural leaders: the Forum of 100.

After 18 years leading NashaGazeta.ch, Nadia Sikorsky decided to return to her roots and focus on what truly fascinates her: culture in all its diversity. This decision took the form of this trilingual cultural blog (Russian, English, French) born in the heart of Europe – in Switzerland, her adopted country, the country distinguished by its multiculturalism and multilingualism.

Nadia Sikorsky does not present herself as a "Russian voice," but as the voice of a European of Russian origin (more than 35 years in Europe, 25 years spent in Switzerland) with the benefit of more than 30 years of professional experience in the cultural world at the international level. She positions herself as a cultural mediator between Russian and European traditions; the title of the blog, "The Russian Accent," captures this essence – the accent being not a linguistic barrier, not a political position but a distinctive cultural imprint in the European context.

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The First Homosexuals: The Birth of New Identities, 1869–1939

This is the title of an exhibition on view at Kunstmuseum Basel until 2 August. Let me say from the outset: it is not about the emergence of homosexuality as such, but about the moment when a phenomenon that had existed for millennia acquired a new vocabulary, and with it new ways of describing human experience.

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