Tickets for The Scorpions Moscow Live Concert Nearly Sold Out

Almost 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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• Posted in: Russia, Kremlin, Culture, Music
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Putin Awards Rostropovich With State Medal

President Vladimir Putin has awarded renowned cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich with a state medal, The Associated Press news agency reported on Monday quoting an official release by the Kremlin press service.

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• Posted in: Russia, Vladimir Putin, Culture, Music, Mstislav Rostropovich
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Ian Brown and Brett Anderson Come to Moscow for a two-day Festival

British musicians Ian Brown and Brett Anderson are not the type of people who Russian filmmakers typically approach to do their movie soundtracks.

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• Posted in: Russia, Cinema, Culture, Music, Ian Brown, Brett Anderson, Paragraph 78
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Popular UK Band Caught Up In Spy Poison Scare

Three members of Razorlight were caught up in the drama of the poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, as they were travelling on one of the planes that contained traces of Polonium 210.

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• Posted in: Russia, Spy, UK, Music, Alexander Litvinenko
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Russian Twin Sisters Win Junior Eurovision 2006

Twin girls from Russia won Saturday the 4th Junior Eurovision song contest in Bucharest.

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• Posted in: Russia, Music, Romania, Eurovision, Bucharest
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Razorlight Confirms Russian Bribe Reports

UK band Razorlight have confirmed they were forced to cancel a gig in Russia on November 24 when Moscow officials demanded “an astronomical amount of cash” for a permit to perform.

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• Posted in: Russia, Corruption, Music, Bribe, Nokia
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Razorlight Cancelled Show in Moscow After Officials Demand Money

Razorlight reportedly cancelled a gig in Russia this weekend after officials demanded a huge sum of money before they played.

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• Posted in: Russia, Moscow, Music, Nokia
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Russian Teenager Arrested for Planning to Kill Hilary Duff

Police 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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• Posted in: Russia, Crime & Punishment, U.S., Murder, Hilary Duff, California
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Russian Tycoon Offers Sharon Stone $1.5m for a Date

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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• Posted in: Russia’s image, Madonna, Sharon Stone
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TATU Producer Angers Russia With Suicide Bomber Singer

Russians, still in shock at the Beslan tragedy, have reacted angrily to a music producer’s plans for what he calls a “terror concert”, with a female singer dressed as a suicide bomber on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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• Posted in: Russia, Culture, Terrorism, Music, tATu
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