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Russian Republic Banning Songs That Are Too Fast or Slow

In the Russian Republic of Chechnya, authorities have enacted a new ban that polices the speed of music compositions, now making it an offense to record or present compositions that are too fast or too slow.Per CNN from a report from the Russian state news agency TASS, Chechnya's Minister of Culture Musa Dadayev has announced that all musical, vocal and choreographic compositions will now be limited to a range of […]

todayApril 9, 2024

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Russian Officials Urge Harsh Penalty

Calls mounted in Russia on Monday to harshly punish those behind the concert hall attack that killed more than 130 people as authorities combed the burned-out ruins of the entertainment complex and an Orthodox priest blessed the site. Four men, charged with carrying out a terrorist attack, appeared in court Sunday night and showed signs of being severely beaten. Civil liberties groups cited this as sign that Russia’s poor record […]

todayMarch 25, 2024 1

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Dozens Dead After Gunmen Open Fire at Russian Concert Venue

At least 40 people are dead after multiple gunmen opened fire at a Russian concert venue near Moscow today (March 22), as reported by Russian news outlet TASS [via The New York Times].What Venue Was Attacked + Who Was Playing?Russian rock band Picnic were set to perform a show at the Crocus City Hall outside Moscow in the town of Krasnogorsk when at least three individuals dressed in camouflage opened fire with automatic […]

todayMarch 22, 2024 2

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Central Asia Stars In Exiled Russian Rapper’s Wild Viral Music Video

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- The first word in Russian rapper-in-exile Morgenshtern's latest hit music video is unsurprisingly a curse word. After that, things get very weird indeed. Shot in Uzbekistan, his music video Black Russian is the latest collaboration between Russian musicians and Central Asian creatives at a time when growing censorship and the war in Ukraine is stifling Moscow's music business. To be sure, cultural exchanges with Russian stars of […]

todaySeptember 12, 2023 4

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Ukrainian musicians killed in Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia

KYIV, Ukraine — They sang about love and loss, their lyrics reflecting the hopes and fears of their fellow Ukrainians as brutal battles raged a few miles from their home city of Zaporizhzhia in the country’s south. Now their musical lament is playing at their own graves. Street musicians Svitlana Siemieikina, 18, and Kristina Spitsyna, 21, were killed by a Russian airstrike on a residential area of Zaporizhzhia last week. Their deaths […]

todayAugust 14, 2023 4

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