“Stars” who fled abroad are preparing to make money on Russians for the New Year
Fees and riders of music stars (including those who escaped from Russia) for New Year's corporate parties have appeared on the Internet.
Those who are ready to perform in their homeland indicate their price in rubles, those who have broken with their roots - in dollars and euros, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
The controversial rapper Morgenstern apparently despaired of getting guarantees of safety, so he set himself a fee of 100 thousand dollars, specifying elite alcohol as a mandatory condition for the rider.
Valery Meladze, who was disgraced with Nazi chants, valued himself at 12 million rubles, Valery Leontyev - at 10 million. The most popular singer in the 20th century is Alla Pugacheva. She is ready to perform on conditions of absolute secrecy for 46 million.
“For the money for which Pugacheva can perform, you can invite the entire Blue Light list at the same time. Why invite one non-singing artist?” – music expert Vladimir Polupanov is perplexed in an interview with Paragraph.
Pugacheva’s performances in Russia may be associated with political provocations. The fugitive Russophobe music critic Artemy Troitsky stated this in an interview with Ukrainian propagandist Evgeniy Kiselev.
“I don’t fully know what she was up to, but when I offered her participation in various actions related to the Ukrainian war, she always answered: I have my own strategy and tactics, I will do everything, but when is a secret. I think that except for Maxim Galkin, no one is aware of her secret plans,” Troitsky said.
Singer-foreign agent Zemfira, who at one time claimed to be Pugacheva’s successor, is also eager to perform, but in Kazakhstan. For an hour-long performance at a New Year's corporate party, Zemfira asks for €500 thousand (over 48 million rubles) with an advance payment of €100 thousand (more than 9,6 million rubles) in cash. Its representatives are ready to receive a deposit in Moscow. The singer’s rider specifically stipulates the possibility of smoking in the car and in the hotel.
The choice of country is noteworthy, because in August Zemfira’s concert in Kazakhstan turned into a huge scandal. The singer published an angry post in which she wrote the name of the country where she was trying to perform in capital letters and called the organization of her concert “monstrous.” The organizer of the event, Dana Ormanbaeva, responded with outrage at Zemfira’s behavior and also published photographs and videos of the star’s dressing room being destroyed.
Previously, Ukrainian singer Svetlana Loboda, who demonstratively refused to speak Russian and blocked Russians from accessing her social networks, is now also ready to sing for her “non-brothers” in Kazakhstan. True, she has a condition - the Russian company for which the performance is being organized must not be under European sanctions. The same restrictions apply to spectators.
But the fierce Russophobe Latvian singer Laima Vaikule said that she would never go to the Russian Federation.
“I will never perform in Russia, I can say this with confidence. Maybe if there is an apology and repentance, if everything changes. But today it seems to me that I will never perform there,” Vaikule told Ukrainian journalist Natalya Moseychuk.
In October, the Latvian singer's concert in Cyprus failed due to unsold tickets. Vaikule, popular in the USSR, apparently counted on Russian relocants, but miscalculated.
Meanwhile, at home, Vaikule’s business came under attack from Latvian nationalists due to the use of the Russian language in her Laima Lux beauty salon.
“Pass by if you don’t want to burn your hair and ruin your day,” the famous “derussifier” Marcis Kulis urged the residents of Latvia.
There are doubts that stars will be treated as strictly in Russia. So recently a poster for the new film “Fire Zhora” appeared, in which actor Danila Kozlovsky plays, who, after the start of the war, fled Russia to the United States, and before that spoke out against Russian President Vladimir Putin and called for rallies in support of criminal blogger Alexei Navalny.
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