Music

In the past, Владимир Золотухин (Vladimir Zolotukhin, 1990) sang and played in Cardio Beat, which even participated in X Factor (2015). But he performs best alone (now under the name Zoloto since then). And the more limited the resources you give him, the better the work he returns with.

Fans of British-Irish pub orchestra music, and of Beirut from New York, known for Balkan-inspired music with French titles, popular (or once popular) in the Netherlands. They should really listen to Ручеёк from Yaroslavl. It may not be better, but it is Russian.

Certainly no friend of Russia, this gentleman. Quite the opposite, in fact. Timur Mutsurayev hails from Chechnya (Grozny, 1976), and advocates for Chechen independence – which quickly makes him an enemy.

Yanka Dyagileva (Янка Дягилева), also known simply as Yanka, originally Яна and musically associated with Янка и Великие Октябри (“Yanka and the Great Octobers”), was born (in Novosibirsk) in 1966 and died (in 1991) at the age of 24. Allegedly by her own hand, though the official version states утопление в результате несчастного случая – drowning as a result of an accident.

The summer of 2019 in Russia (like 2020) was very turbulent. Journalist Ivan Golunov was arrested and (after much uproar) released again, opposition candidates were denied entry into the Moscow City Duma elections (on September 8), and protests broke out. Volodya Kotlyarov, lead singer of PornoFilms (Порнофильмы), picked up his guitar and sang.

Константин Ступин (Konstantin Stupin) performed this Когда я умер (When I Died) in 2015. On YouTube, there are also performances from 2014 and 2015, but those are outdoors, as well as a live version from 2016. Ступин was born in 1972 and passed away in 2017.