It also hosts various touring ballet companies, including the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet.
Only a few hundred people in Kirov have registered to vote in the opposition election.
The paper noted that the Mariynskiy, known in the Soviet era as the Kirov, had always played host to important events.
Directly adjacent to them are another three Russian oblasts that have not fared very well in the market: Bryansk, Kirov, and Pskov.
During her career, Bussell has also performed with the New York City Ballet, the Kirov Ballet, Australian Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet.
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Also on trial is Pyotr Ofitserov, a father of five, who ran a timber trading company in Kirov during Navalny's time in the region.
As the trial began, several dozen activists protested in support of Navalny outside the courthouse in Kirov, chanting, "We will not let you go!"
Also on trial is Pyotr Ofitserov, who ran the timber company which Mr Navalny advised while working for the governor of the Kirov region in 2009.
He was hired by RT, the Kremlin-financed television station, after giving an impressive presentation on a cucumber festival in the provincial city of Kirov, he says.
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"At the end of the trial, we will certainly win, " Navalny said when he arrived in the northwestern city of Kirov on the overnight train from Moscow.
Konstantin Zaitsev, the chief judge at the Kirov City Court, said Blinov, who is 35 years old, has acquitted no defendant in his career as a magistrate.
Based in Moscow, the Bolshoi was a highly visible and prominent tool during the Soviet era much more so than the Mariinsky Ballet (then known as the Kirov) in St.
"The investigators have become confused and can't even determine what damage was caused, " said Ilya Yashin, a prominent opposition activist who was among a group of Navalny supporters who traveled to Kirov from Moscow.
Mr Navalny's trial in the city of Kirov, about 900km (560 miles) north-east of Moscow, began a week ago but was quickly adjourned after his lawyers said they needed more time to read the case files.
KIROV, Russia (AP) The trial of a Russian opposition leader accused of embezzling half a million dollars' worth of timber from a state-run company was adjourned shortly after its start Wednesday in a northwestern city.
KIROV, Russia (AP) A prominent Russian opposition leader on trial for embezzlement said Wednesday that his innocence will be obvious for all to see by the end of the proceedings, even if the court finds him guilty.
Hundreds of activists and journalists descended upon Kirov, a muddy post-industrial city of derelict roads and Soviet-era tower blocks, booking up all train tickets and hotels and scrumming outside the court from the middle of the night in an attempt to get inside.
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