Who else is in Palmyra? Putin’s billionaire cellist

Who else is in Palmyra? Putin’s billionaire cellist

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norman lebrecht

May 05, 2016

For Valery Gergiev’s concert on recaptured Syrian territory, the Russian government has sent a delegation headed by the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, it is reported.

He is accompanied by the Hermitage Director Mikhail Piotrovsky and the St. Petersburg House of Music director, the cellist and conductor Sergei Roldugin.

Mr Roldugin is suspected of squirrelling away billions of dollars on behalf of President Vladimir Putin in bank accounts in Panama.

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