Mental Wanderlust...

An eclectic mix of mainly Central Asian and former Soviet Union news, plus a few weirdities and random articles that have caught my eye while wandering through the internet. Occasionally personal, mostly topical, generally intelligible, infrequently ranty and sometimes even entertaining - for a certain target demographic, at least... This blog is currently mothballed and currently (March 2010) I do not have any intention to start it up again. This may however change in the future.

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Non-sequiteurs...

Supposedly serious coverage of the shooting in the head of Diskoteka Avariya's lead singer, Aleksei Serov, from NewsProm.ru:

Корреспонденты позвонили в регистратуру Склифа, где им подтвердили, что Алексей Серов был доставлен в больницу в ночь на 23 мая в сопровождении друга певца Дмитрия Крайкова и девушки, которая была очень похожа на «фабрикантку» Марию Ржевскую, прославившуюся благодаря песне о том, что будет, когда она станет кошкой.

Fair enough upto the green bit, but then we're into "how much extraneous information can I get into this sentence" territory. And it must be said, the journalist in question did a damned good job: "[a girl], who looked very much like the "Pop Factory" participant Maria Rzhevskaya, who gained fame thanks to a song about what would happen when she became a pussy cat." Maybe it's just me, but adding this information in seems a little bizarre, but that the zheltaya pressa for you: more gossip please! It is being speculated that the poor bloke got shot as a result of having changed production teams... Join the army - less dangerous than being a Russian pop star...

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