Latest Breaking News On - Dmitry oparin - Page 1 : comparemela.com
Teaching Nanai : languagehat com
languagehat.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from languagehat.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
8 BEST podcasts about Russia
rbth.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rbth.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Russia’s Controversial Eurovision Entry Challenges Tradition
Manizha Sangin has never been your typical Russian popstar.
A refugee from Tajikistan and outspoken pro-LGBT feminist, the art pop singer’s March selection by public vote on state television to represent her adopted country at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in the Dutch city of Rotterdam stunned Russia’s musical establishment.
With Russia’s turn towards social conservatism deepening amid laws clamping down on homosexuality and decriminalizing domestic violence, the 29-year-old singer, who performs as Manizha, seems to many a rebuttal of all that the country has come to stand for in the Putin era.
Manizha will represent Russia at Eurovision this year. The Tajikistan-born Russian signer won the national competition to go to the contest with
Russian Woman song interpreted on behalf of a Russian Woman (or the one born in Russia) pursuing her goal breaking stereotypes. Read more in Realnoe Vremya’s report.
From Dushanbe to Moscow, from pop music to independent
Manizha Sangin herself explains that
Russian Woman is a “song about a transformation of the woman’s self-perception in the last few hundreds of years in Russia. The Russian woman covered a surprising road from a peasant’s hut to the enfranchisement and the right to be elected (one of the first in the world), from factory shops to flights to space. She has never been afraid to oppose stereotypes and assume responsibility”.
5 подкастов об истории, культуре, науке и психологии
vokrugsveta.ru - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vokrugsveta.ru Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.