Moscow Digest 18 | June 20th&21st

Edition 018 June 20th&21st

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JAZZ Manor house festival p. 18 YOGA, YOGA & YOGA Yoga day celebration p. 04 PICNIC Language Sandwich p. 06

TOP24 CITIES TO VISIT FROM MOSCOW

Dear Friends, Moscow Digest is your key to interesting weekends during your stay in Moscow. This week our main themes are: Festivals, Expos and Music. In our traditional selection of TOP places, we will talk about the TOP24 cities to visit from Moscow.

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Contents: Festivals in Moscow 04 u International Day of Yoga 06 u Language Sandwich – English speaking picnic

Expos in Moscow

08 u The exhibition “Between war and peace.

James Hill” 10 u James Hill

12 u Photo exhibition Sailing Photo Awards 14 u Exhibition “Palladio in Russia” 15 u Andrea Palladio

20 u Top24 cities for travel from Moscow

Music in Moscow

18 u Festival “Jazz Manor house” 19 u Opera “Little Demon”

Cover: Yoga Day (see p. 04)

Moscow Weather source: gismeteo.ru

June, 20th +15 +25 Cloudy/Rain

June, 21st +17 +23 Cloudy/Rain

Festivals in Moscow This week in the capital will take place-interesting festivals.

Welcome the Yoga day with a cute inf- graphic about yoga benefits and a other great event the Picnic in English in Gorky Park.

International Day of Yoga

At the summer solstice day - this year for the first time, will be held the International Day of yoga. On the second floor balcony of the design center Artplay will meet the best teachers and lovers of yoga. Great entertainment and educational programs of the festival will focus on promoting a healthy lifestyle and a good attitude to the world.

In connection with the day of the solstice will be the main event of a mass execution of complex “Sun salutation” 108 times participants in the festival. Everyone will be able to attend master classes in different directions of Yoga - Vinyasa Flow, dynamic meditation, yoga universal etc. There you will also have the possibility to participate in classes of capoeira, dance juzz funk and learn about the basics of Thai massage.

Prepared training complex for women, in which representatives of the beautiful half of humanity will be able to learn all about their health.

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At the celebration will be allocated a space for creativity, where participants will be able to learn weaving mandalas, painting or decorate your body with henna patterns. For children there are sports games and a special yoga program.

All guests will be able to help children with cerebral palsy, contributing to the development of the charity fund “Dearheart.”

To take part in the festival, it is necessary to register on the site: www.yogaday108s.com On June 21st Open time: 9am-10pm Entrance fee: Free ARTPLAY N. Syromyatnicheskaya 10, bld 3 m. Kurskaya, m. Chkalovskaya (same entrance as British Higher School of Art & Design) www. artplay.ru

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-Your Body & YogaHead Yoga helps ease stress be decreasing the fight of flight response

Heart Yoga lowers blood pressure, improves blood flow and may also reduce atherosclerosis

Back Regular sessions provide short-term relief (and possibly long-term relief) from chronic low back pain

Lungs 65 minutes a day lower the use of asthma medication Ă? yoga lowers the vagal reactivity that precedes asthma attacks.

Muscles Regular practice promotes long-term flexibility by making muscle molecules and proteins more elastic

Joints All the stretching leads to less pain and more functionality

Energy - Two 90-minutes sessions a week can reduce fatigue by

The Sun Salutation

Mountain pose Exhale

Mountain Pose Exhale

Prayer pose Exhale

Backward bending Inhale

Forward leaning Forward Bending Warrior Pose with straight back Inhale Exhale

Plank Inhale

Warrior Pose Inhale

57%

Eight point pose Exhale

Backward bending Exhale

Come up with straight back Inhale

Cobra Pose Inhale

Backward bending

Prayer pose Exhale

Language Sandwich –

English speaking picnic In Gorky Park opens a new series of Picnics in English. Is a good possibility to meet new people and help theme to learn English or practice English in a funny way, if it’s not your natal language.

Picnics are held every Saturday of June at 4pm.

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Among English-speaking buddy to play pingpong, eat sandwiches and discuss in English the most interesting questions of modern life (movies, TV shows, music, arts, business, technology, mass media, wine and cuisine of the world, travel, etc.) .

You will need mats to sit on the grass and a little snack.

Hosts - Luba and Matt.

Phone: 8-915- 230-8348 Luba.

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Meeting point: the main entrance to the park.

Every Saturday of June Open time: 4pm-7pm Participation fee: from 200RUB Gorky Park 9, Krymskiy Val Street m.Oktyabrskaya, m.

Park Kultury www.park-gorkogo.com

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Expos in Moscow This week we choose for you 3 amazing exhibitions.

An exhibition of a war correspondent, an exhibition to feel the breeze of the sea (specially for those, who didn’t go to holidays yet) and an exhibition about Paladio in Russia.

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Between war and peace.

James Hill

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For the first time in Moscow, an exhibition of the famous photographer and war correspondent James Hill “Between war and peace.” During his twenty-year career as a reporter James visited many countries, including many “hot spots”.

Seeing the different aspects of life - peace and war, James Hill made a collection of his photographs reflect the

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vivid contrast of household life of the inhabitants of the world.

On the exhibition you can see unique shots made in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, in one of the most difficult times for those countries. Each image is accompanied by a short essay by photographer incidents in these areas and the impressions

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the photographer, who was an eyewitness.

Along with these terrible and often sad photographs on display are pictures taken on the territory of Russia and the peace of Europe.

A selection of photos of the exhibition “Between war and peace.

James Hill “lets think about the causes and consequences of

armed conflicts.

Open time: 12am-9pm Entrance fee: 200-430 RUB Lumier Brothers Gallery 3, Bolotnaya Quay bld.1. m. Kropotkinskaya, m.

Polyanka www.lumiere.ru

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James Hill

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is a leading photographer and photojournalist and his images have won many of photography’s most important prizes including World Press Photo, the Pulitzer Prize, the Visa d’Or at Perpignan’s Visa Pour L’Image, and awards from The Over­ seas Press Club of America and the NPPA. He began his career after studies at Oxford Uni­versity and the London College of Printing, leaving England for the Soviet Union in the autumn of 1991.

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Plunged immediately into the strife of the war torn republics of the former Soviet Union he worked initially as a freelancer before joining The New York Times on contract in 1995. He was based first in Moscow and then in Rome, from where he departed to cover the battles of the US led war on terror in Afghan­istan in 2001 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

In recent years he has returned to Moscow and travels across the

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world focusing his attention on lon­ger projects as well as indepth news features.

Hill is re­cognised, in particular, for blending a style of environ­ mental portraits and landscapes, and mixing an ar­tistic and journalistic awareness of the world around him.

His series of books and exhibitions have been supported by both governmental and commercial agencies.

Among recent projects were “Victory Day,” an extensive portrait

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series of more than 500 Russian WWII veterans published with the support of the Brit­ ish Council and “Days of San Isidro,” a study on bull­fighting commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of For­eign Affairs. His latest book, “Somewhere Between War and Peace,” an examination of the emotional and artistic forces dominating a photographer’s career, is published by Kehrer Verlag.

His work has been shown in solo exhibits

in both state and commercial galleries worldwide.

His photo­graphs are also in the permanent collections of the Pushkin Museum, the Moscow House of Photography, The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, as well as institu­tional and private collections. www.mjrhill.com

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Sailing Photo Awards The centre of design Artplay is opened an exhibition of photography “The Sailing Photo Awards”, taking place in the framework of World Press Photo, Picture of the Year Exhibition by the GEO magazine. The exposition was placed on the two balconies of the building 7 (Small Hall).

“Sailing Photo Awards” is the first selection of Russian premium quality sailing photos created by the agency ViMarketing! to popularize yachting in Russia.

Through vivid, emotional, inspirational images lovers and recognized world masters tend to talk about the wonderful world of sailing, which is full of drive, extreme and exciting experience.

Last Days!

Until June 21st Start: 11am Entrance fee: from 350 RUB ARTPLAY N. Syromyatnicheskaya 10, bld 3 m. Kurskaya, m. Chkalovskaya www. artplay.ru 12

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Palladio in Russia The name of Andrea Palladio, the Italian architect of the XVI century, has heard every one of us. And those who are engaged in architecture, it is rightly considered the most influential architect in the world.

It is no secret that with his name and associate the appearance of Architecture with a capital in Russia, because under the influence of his works was formed

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neoclassicism, prevailed in Russian architecture almost to the middle of the XIX century. In public buildings and private houses, palaces and churches of St. Petersburg are easily recognized Palladian motifs, as Palladian architectural elements used in creating structures and in the Silver Age of the cultural life of the city on the Neva River, and even in Soviet times.

After visiting the exhibition has already visited Italy and aroused great interest, you trace the

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development of palladianstva in Russia for 300 years, you will see not only the architectural designs and drawings, and graphic works and paintings by Kandinsky, Borovikovsky, Benoit Sudeikin and other artists. The exhibition consists of two parts: the first tells about the path of movement of architecture from Baroque to Art Nouveau and is held in the Bread House Museum “Tsarina�, and the second - about palladianstva Russia in the XX century

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and is organized at the Museum of Architecture. Shchusev.

Until June 26th Museum of Architecture. Shchusev st. Vozdvizhenka, 5/25 m. Biblioteka I. Lenina 11:00 - 20:00 Price: from 100 to 250 rubles.

Museum and Natural Reserve Park Tsaritsino 1, Dolskaya st. m. Tsaritsino parktsaricino.ru

www.tsaritsyno-museum.ru

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Andrea Palladio; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580

was an Italian architect active in the Republic of Venice. Palladio, influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily by Vitruvius, is widely considered to be the most influential individual in the history of architecture. All of his buildings are located in what was the Venetian Republic, but his teachings, summarized in the architectural treatise, The Four Books of Architecture, gained him wide recognition. The city of Vicenza and the Palladian Villas of the Veneto are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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Music in Moscow “If music be the food of love, play on.”

- William Shakespeare This weekend will take place a famous Jazz festival – the Jazz Manor House, a unique way to get in the Rhythm of the Eternal music. The second event is a unique Opera.

The choice is difficult ;)

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Jazz Manor house The Jazz music very quickly find millions of fans. African rhythms have conquered virtually the entire world. That’s why more and more people every year come to the festival “ Jazz Manor house», to enjoy this fiery and emotional music.

This year, the 12th festival will be held at a new venue - the museum and natural reserve “Tsarino”, which is known for its unusual architecture. Even Imperatrice Catherine celebrated the unique acoustic capabilities of this site. The star of the new festival will be legendary drummer

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Tony Allen, whose inimitable style of play is always plunges spectators into the world of African music. In addition, spectators will be: participants of the show “The Voice” Anton Belyaev and his group Therr Maitz, a group of “Metropolis”, which will present a large-scale project “on Earth” dedicated scenarios for unwithdrawn Soviet films of the USSR, Diana Arbenina with special acoustic program opera singer Hibla Gerzmava and Russian jazz pianist Daniel Kramer.

open air to enjoy the masterpieces of world cuisine at food-markets and play active games.

In addition to the music program, the festival has prepared a lot of other entertainment.

Viewers will be able to visit poetry readings, an exhibition of art objects in the

Museum and Natural Reserve Park Tsaritsino 1, Dolskaya st. m. Tsaritsino parktsaricino.ru www.tsaritsyno-museum.ru

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The festival will open it’s doors at 13:00. The approximate start of live performances - 14:00. Tickets at the box office park Tsaritsyno in the days of the festival will be available from 11:00.

On June 20th Tickets : from 2500 rubles.

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Opera “Little Demon” On the anniversary of Alexander Zhurbin, one of the most popular contemporary Russian composers Theatre presents the world premiere of his new opera “Little Demon”. The novel by Fyodor Sologub, who became a key literary event of pre-revolutionary Russia, many years attracted Zhurbina his eternal theme, dramatic contrasts and satirical force.

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In this work, which is a journalistic honesty about the life of the inhabitants of a small provincial town, the composer reveals the multi-layered content clearly and vividly tells about the actual problems of man and society.

Director-producer - Honored Artist of Russia Georgy Isahakyan.

Music Director - People’s Artist of Russia Vladimir Agronsky.

Art Director - Stepan Zohrabyan.

Costume - Natalia Voinov.

On the 19th,20th and 21st of June Start: 7pm Tickets: 200 -1500 RUB Pokrovsky Chamber Music Theatre 17, Nikolskaya Str., bld. 1 m. Revolution Square www.opera-pokrovsky.ru

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Top24 cities for travel from Moscow The Summer will sonly get to it’s end, find a large list of cities where you can go for the weekend from Moscow.

Travel.ru has made a rating of cities easy accessible from Moscow, which hide a little pieces of the History of Russia, the cities a ranked by the cost of travel for the weekend. It includes 24 cities, popular for trips on weekends and holidays from Moscow.

In the calculation of the leisure budget for two includes: - One Night stay in a hotel, within 5 kilometres from the centre of the city (according to the website of online booking Oktogo.ru); - Dinner with wine for two in a restaurant; - Visiting one famous museum- two tickets.

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First place in the ranking of the most cost-effective cities for travel took Sevastopol.

This summer, the city-hero become an attractive place for tourists from all over the country, because its beaches are no less beautiful than on the southern coast of Crimea, and their workload is less. The budget for the trip to the holiday weekend will be 2025 rubles, considering a visit to the Maritime Aquarium-Museum.

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Third place in the ranking Rostov-on-Don (budget 2130 rubles). Rostov regional museum of local lore invites tourists to get acquainted with the rich history of the region by organizing numerous exhibitions and excursions. Every year more than 200 thousand visitors acquainted with the exposition of this southern city.

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The second place - Samara budget 2060 rubles. The ancient city at the confluence of the Volga , Samara offers tours to tourist camps and sanatoriums. A trip to the history of present Samara Regional History Museum by the name of PV Alabina.

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The fourth in the ranking of cities for a trip to the holiday weekend became Kaliningrad. The budget of 2 160 rubles per day allows you to enjoy the beauty of the city and the Kaliningrad Regional History and Art Museum will open its doors to the knowledge of cultural and historical part of the province.

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Fifth place ranking takes Kazan (budget 2400 rubles).

One of the fastest growing cities in Russia pleases tourists by dozens of interesting sights. National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan one of the oldest in Russia, and Kazan Kremlin visited almost all the guests of the city.

Sixth place is Saratov - a picturesque city on the banks of the Volga. The budget for the trip here will be 2430 rubles for two. And get to know all facets of Saratov Regional Museum of Local History will allow, is the oldest in the region - it dates back to 1886.

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On the seventh line - Ekaterinburg (budget 2440 rubles).

Ural capital abounds with architectural monuments of the XIX-XX centuries, and wonderful views of the churches and old houses are opened to the city’s waterfront. You can also draw inspiration from the Sverdlovsk regional museum opened in 1871.

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The eighth line rated is Voronezh, budget - 2460 rubles.

Voronezh Regional Museum was opened in September 1894. Since then he pleases its visitors with wonderful exhibitions and expositions, which reflect colour and grandeur of the Voronezh land.

Ninth position is Irkutsk (budget 2560 rubles) - the capital of Eastern Siberia and the city museum, the romantic face of antiquity.

The town appeared on the map of the Russian Empire a few centuries ago, but it has got a rich history of culture, which can be found by visiting the Irkutsk Regional Art Museum by the name of V.P.Sukachёva.

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Tenth place is shared by Novgorod and Vologda, since the budget for travel in the same - 2640 rubles.

Novgorod the Great - a popular tourist destination city museum and the centre of archaeological excavations.

Its main attraction - the Novgorod Kremlin - it is a museum, a park, and the main pedestrian route connecting Sofia and shopping parties at different banks of the river Volkhov.

City of Vologda, a history spanning more than eight and a half centuries - the capital of the Russian North.

It is a land of temples and monasteries, monuments of architecture and art. Vologda State Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve is waiting for a visit of tourists from all over the country.

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The eleventh place in the ranking Chelyabinsk (budget - 2680 rubles). Here visitors will find numerous attractions and museums: local history, arts and crafts of the Urals, railway engineering, geology and postal services.

Chelyabinsk State History Museum - a unique treasure trove of historical, cultural and spiritual heritage of the region. Its funds holds about 300,000 items, including artefacts of national significance.

Krasnoyarsk - the old Siberian town, lying on the banks of the Yenisei River, occupies 12th place in the ranking. Megacities, a major educational, cultural and industrial centre of the Siberian Federal District offers to visit Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum. The budget for the trip here will be 2720 rubles.

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Thirteenth place ranking in the hero-city Volgograd, the longest village in Russia.

Before 1925, the city was called Tsaritsyn, and until 1961 - Stalingrad. Every year thousands of tourists come to see the sights, go fishing, see places to visit Battle of Stalingrad and Volgograd Regional Museum (budget 2730 rubles).

The third area of the city of Russia - Perm, got on the fourteenth line ranking (2790 rubles). The history of the Perm Regional Museum dates back to 1890.

Here you can find the most fascinating facts and unique artefacts.

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Admire the grandeur of the capital of Siberia, visit the geographical centre of the former Russian Empire Chapel of St. Nicholas, as well as visit the local history museum - here is a small list for a visit to Novosibirsk, which occupies the fifteenth place ranking (budget 2800 rubles).

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The city of Sochi is on the seventeenth place ranking with a budget of 3,000 rubles. In addition to beautiful beaches and diverse, interesting to visit the Museum of Sports Glory of Sochi, which contains more than three hundred exhibits representing the achievements of famous athletes and coaches Sochi residents, some of whom are Olympic champions and medallists.

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Sixteenth place ranking in Ufa city (budget 2840 rubles). It’s clean, comfortable, prosperous town with modern complexes station and the airport, sparkling glass skyscrapers, grown on the embankment of the river Belaya, beautiful green parks, ancient Muslim and Orthodox churches. We recommend visiting the National Museum of Bashkortostan.

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19-th line in the city of Nizhny Novgorod. For tourists, there are a lot of interesting things: from the Kremlin, which has stone steps down the mountains Dyatlov, and ending with the cable car cabins that float over the river. The budget for the trip is 3 140 rubles.

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Yaroslavl is located on the eighteenth place ranking (budget 3060 rubles). This major regional centre on the banks of the Volga River is among the ten most popular tourist cities in Russia. It is often visited as part of tours to the Golden Ring. The attention of tourists is proposed Museum of the City of Yaroslavl.

Khabarovsk - quite a young city, so that the historical attractions are not so much.

Old buildings - churches: the church of St. Innocent of Irkutsk was built back in 1870. Also of interest are the merchants’ mansions, profitable and trading houses abroad XIX and XX centuries, but more on that will tell visitors the history of the Museum of the city of Khabarovsk (budget 3160 rubles).

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Crimean resort of Yalta is on the 21 th place with a budget of 3,306 rubles. The most popular resort peninsula of Crimea, the centre of the so-called Big Yalta, stretching along the Black Sea coast, 72 kilometres from the village of Foros to Krasnokamenka always glad to visitors. Massandra Palace June 1992 exists as a museum. On the first and second floors of the palace interiors exposition of the XIX century, created on the basis of funds Alupka Palace Museum. Rooms on the third floor occupied by the stationary exhibition.

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22th line of the rating belongs to Kostroma - one of the oldest cities in Russia, the home of the Snow Maiden and cradle of the Romanov dynasty. Kostroma forests wandered, confusing Polish invaders, the legendary Ivan Susanin. It is worth visiting the Kostroma State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve. The budget for the trip to Kostroma is 3 800 rubles.

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At the 23rd place ranking cities in Russia for a trip to the holiday weekend June 12th is St. Petersburg. Budget to visit the northern capital will be 4510 rubles. It is no secret that St. Petersburg is rich in museums and places of interest, history that never ceases to amaze and inspire. Russian Museum opened its doors to visitors in 1898. This is a unique repository of artistic treasures certainly worth a visit. www.intermarkrelocation.ru

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Infographic about Yoga: Sources : graphic by Nicole Niemiec (Indian journal of Sience.2012 ; Journal of Pharmacology. 2013 ; Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2014 ; British Medical Journal. 1985 ; Clinical Journal of pain, 2013 ; Cell. 2014 )

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