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In Tomsk, Siberia's oldest orchestra presses record on Rachmaninoff
The Tomsk Academic Symphony Orchestra, founded in the year the first Siberian railway opened, has wrapped a studio recording of Rachmaninoff. The session is small news with a long shadow.

Desk note: Monexus frames this as a regional cultural-infrastructure story, not a soft-power story, because the source material supports the narrower reading. The soft-power angle is named and weighed, then set aside, rather than smuggled in as the dominant frame.
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