Slava Vakarchuk, front man of Ukrainian rockers Okean Elzy, has become a celebrity spokesman for UNICEF in Ukraine. The United Nations Children’s Fund said it made the selection after conducting a survey to determine the most well-known and respected public figures in Ukraine. Vakarchuk has already recorded a UNICEF radio advertisement, in which he reminds listeners, “Our children today, our future tomorrow.” The musician also plans to appear in a UNICEF video as part of his duties as spokesman.
Vopli Vidoplyasova bassist Oleksandr Pipa has recorded a solo album titled “Let’s Take Each Other’s Hands and all Stand in a Circle.” Pipa financed the project himself. The album features only six compositions and will have a limited run of just 1,000 copies. The official release date is set for September.
Two Kievskiye Vedomosti newspaper journalists say they are considering suing Russian pop star Filip Kirkorov. They claim he publicly insulted them at the recent Slavyansky Bazar festival in Vitebsk, Belarus. Iryna Karpinos said that when she tried to take her seat, Kirkorov’s bodyguard refused to let her by – and that when her colleague Olena Cherednichenko intervened, the singer began to verbally abuse her. Cherednichenko said she hadn’t heard such language in a long time.
“I think it was half a year ago,” she was quoted as saying in Kievskiye Vedomosti. “I heard something like it
