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| | TIME.com: A Storm over a Tea Cup -- Jul. 05, 1999 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | But he and his fellow investors could have a battle on their hands, not least from the factory's artists who fear their creative freedom--the factory's design floor is even called the laboratory--could be curtailed by profit-oriented foreign owners. |
 | | Lomonosov's director, Yevgeny Barkov, a grizzled engineer who has given 41 years to the factory, is particularly unenthused. |
 | | Not only is Lomonosov a mine of "white gold," as Peter the Great dubbed porcelain, it also boasts a museum described by Asgari as a "tiny Hermitage." Here, in three rooms, is the history of Russian porcelain, from the first tea cup fired in 1750 to hunting flasks made for former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. |
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