Mstislav Rostropovich, the ebullient master cellist who fought for the rights of Soviet-era dissidents and later triumphantly played Bach suites below the crumbling Berlin Wall, has died. He was 80.
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Russian pop duo tATu will star in a movie biopic, directed by Roland Joffe (The Killing Fields, The Mission, Super Mario Bros).
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April 12, 2007Russia this week marks the 80th birthday of cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich with a commemorative concert and a Kremlin reception, The Associated Press reports.
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March 27, 2007Almost all the tickets for The Scorpions concert that will take place on March 2 in the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia have been sold.
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February 28, 2007
Twin girls from Russia won Saturday the 4th Junior Eurovision song contest in Bucharest.
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December 4, 2006Police in Manhattan Beach, California, have arrested a Russian teenager for allegedly stalking 19-year-old singer-actress Hilary Duff.
Maksim Myaskovskiy is alleged to have threatened to kill Duff. He was taken into custody on charges of stalking and making criminal threats, and is now being held on a $200,000 bail.
The young Russian is reported to have told a private investigator on Friday that he planned to murder Hilary Duff at a public event on Sunday.
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November 7, 2006
Acress Sharon Stone, who arrived in Moscow to open a luxury clothing boutique, has been subject to a date proposal from an unnamed Russian tycoon.
Stone has been offered $1.5 million for a short visit to some wealthy man’s home in St. Petersburg, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reports. The paper however fails to report on the star’s response to the offer.
Earlier it was reported that Madonna, who came to Moscow last month, received invitations of the same kind.
Meanwhile, Stone spends time before the ceremony at the new Christian Dior boutique in her $2,000-per-night hotel room, dining in posh restaurants and daring rare walks in Moscow cold weather.
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October 20, 2006Russians, still in shock at the Beslan tragedy, have reacted angrily to a music producer’s plans for what he calls a “terror concertâ€, with a female singer dressed as a suicide bomber on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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