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March 18, 2005
Fans Boycott GlukoZa Concert; Dill Riots Claim 42
"Young Russian pop star GlukoZa was booed off-stage during her performance at Luzhniki Stadium last week after fans realized that her microphone had been switched on during the entire concert, and she was singing every song live, rather than lip-synching.
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'I could not possibly explain it to you, a foreigner,' said Sergei Trushin, 23, who wore a GlukoZa tanktop and danced with his girlfriend, Nadezhda Ivanova, 38. 'It has to do with the Russian soul, this need to listen to lip-synched pop music. You cannot understand what I am telling you by the mind, only by the heart.'"
(Full article. I am fighting all the misgivings I've had about dirty, filthy Mark Ames since reading his book, and linking frequently to eXile.)
Browse eXile's In Brief archives. To reprise an old favourite:
Dill Riots Claim 42
IZHEVSK (element) -- Residents of this Ural city regional capital rioted yesterday after a shortage of dill caused tempers to boil over, leaving scores dead.
Tens of thousands of Izhevsk residents poured into the central square with signs reading "Dill or Death!" as wary police and officials looked on.
"How can we eat without dill?" asked Ivan Ivanov, 57.
The riots were sparked when the mayor suggested to the crowd that they try spicing their food with any number of other herbs or spices, including ketchup, coriander, soy sauce, basil, peppers, basil, oregano or mustard.
Calling the mayor "callous" and "out of touch with the people," thousands stormed city hall, where they found huge caches of dill that the mayor had been hoarding for himself. It was first believed that he had wanted to manipulate the price of dill, but later it turned out that he was simply afraid that some day dill would run out, and therefore ordered local officials to confiscate and stockpile all of the regional dill.
"There is enough dill here to feed the entire oblast!" declared mob leader Ruslan Bashidze, 28, as he handed out clumps of dill to jubilant rioters.
Posted by michele at March 18, 2005 6:32 PM