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Rotter Posted 20 years ago
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Up and running
A state commission to inspect Russia's museums and archives is due to be up and running by 1 September after this summer's sensational revelation of a theft of some 200 items from the world-famous Hermitage Museum, allegedly with the involvement of staff.
Mikhail Piotrovsky, the St Petersburg museum's director, is a disappointed man.
"We used to have a presumption of moral innocence with regard to museum staff but since these thefts we have had to drop it and view them like everybody else," he told the BBC News website.
Russia has 58 federal museums and 1,500 under partial state control.
Curators will now theoretically have to put their own working practices on display - and the culture ministry is certainly not happy with their work.
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A commission will start its work or investigte on some activities. Would you write 'a commission is due to be up and running' ?
An authority could start or appoint a commission to work on investigate on some important issue.
What is up and running?
Your comments, please.
Mikhail Piotrovsky, the St Petersburg museum's director, is a disappointed man.
"We used to have a presumption of moral innocence with regard to museum staff but since these thefts we have had to drop it and view them like everybody else," he told the BBC News website.
Russia has 58 federal museums and 1,500 under partial state control.
Curators will now theoretically have to put their own working practices on display - and the culture ministry is certainly not happy with their work.
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A commission will start its work or investigte on some activities. Would you write 'a commission is due to be up and running' ?
An authority could start or appoint a commission to work on investigate on some important issue.
What is up and running?
Your comments, please.
Top answer
up and running= (fully) operational, functional
- up and running= (fully) operational, functional
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Thanks Marius
... running by 1 September after this...
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I think the above should be '' running by 1st of September after this... '
We say, for example, 1st of January, 2nd of January, 3rd of January, etc..
What do you think?
... running by 1 September after this...
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I think the above should be '' running by 1st of September after this... '
We say, for example, 1st of January, 2nd of January, 3rd of January, etc..
What do you think?
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Rotter, there is no one way to write dates. In the U.S., it would say "up and running by September 1."
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...and I would say 'the first of September' but I would write 1 September.
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