Who else is in Palmyra? Putin’s billionaire cellist
mainFor 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.
Trust this writer to bring this, when we should be celebrating such an event, you have to drag the dirt up …..
Bring dirt up????……more like an a mudslide….the rich getting richer off the poorer….just how much money does one need?
Putin is TRUE leader!!!
https://youtu.be/xAcp8UiFtxM
This concert has been criticized the world over, according to BBC World Service reports I’ve just heard. Putin’s Russia is very worrying and Gergiev is very foolish playing along with this – especially in the middle east.
Ha ha ha…….
Yeah, pretty stupid black&white picture of the world, it’s characteristic for autistic children. “We are good and very smart… because we are western people. Russians are evil and blind…. because they are Russians”.
Isn’t that Michael Berkeley in the photo?
Nothing like using culture to promote your propaganda at home. Putin is a master of it.
More? Weren’t 4 things on this enough? Goodness, Norman, I’d think you work for John Hammond or something.
Seriously, though, Roldugin used to be good; he’s certainly not the cellist he used to be; but I like that it’s a giant middle finger to everyone that tells Putin what to do. I mean, he’s not my favorite. But…
Love or Hate the man… he doesn’t care. That I can respect.
And the Chaconne was good. And it was a good thing to do, overall, even if I’m not the biggest fan of Putin.