Citations:khaltura

English citations of khaltura

• 1938, Ivan Luk'ianovich Solonevich, Russia in Chains: A Record of Unspeakable Suffering, page 160:

  A second-rate Spartaciad, such as the Baltic-White-Sea Combine,is merely an apology for a khaltura, it is not to be compared with a 'Five-Year Plan in 4 Years' production; with the stupendous Soviet steel plants at Magnitogorsk; ...

• 1983, Sharon DeLano, Balanchine's Ballerinas: Conversations with the Muses, page 30:

  What were the khalturas that you and Balanchine performed in?

  Khalturas were professional appear ances that were illegal, but they were overlooked because of hard times. [...]

• 1989, New Times, page 42

  For every bad engineer who designed the gadgets there is a khaltura-minded professor who issued him a diploma. The ironic Russian expression "It's the man at the switch who takes all the blame" was coined long ago, [...]

• 1996, Transition: Issues and Developments in the Former Soviet Union and East-Central and Southeastern Europe, page 10:

  In addition, taking on a khaltura is integral to many Russians' lives. Not simply a second job, khaltura is any extra, irregular work. One might have a khaltura once or many times a month, but the income can usually double, even quadruple, one's salary. The number of people who have a khaltura is hard to say, but one is available to anyone with initiative who wants to work: the plumber who installs new pipes for his neighbor; the capable doctor who gives extra treatment [...]