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Ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and the Russian rock star Andrei Makarevich have recorded a charity album dedicated to Gorbachev’s late wife, Raisa. The CD “Songs for Raisa” came out in one copy and was auctioned off at a charity dinner in London. Igor Siletsky reports.
The CD includes seven of Raisa Gorbacheva’s favorite romantic songs in the rendition by Mikhail Gorbachev himself with Andrei Makarevich playing the background music. The album’s recording was timed for the 10th anniversary of Raisa Gorbacheva’s death from leukemia on September 20th 1999.
The charity dinner was held by the Raisa Gorbacheva Foundation jointly with the Marie Curie Foundation. Among more than 350 guests were London Mayor Boris Johnson, Sara Brown, the wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the Russian Ambassador to Britain Yuri Fedotov and a string of other dignitaries, including the Rothemeyer spouses who own Daily Mail, the writer Joan Rowling, actress Vanessa Redgrave and politicians, cultural figures, business representatives and foreign ambassadors.
The performance triggered a standing ovation and storms of applause. The CD was bought for 165 000 dollars by a British philanthropist whose name is not disclosed. All in all, the auction, which was held in London for the fourth time, raised a total of 1.7 million pounds for the Raisa Gorbacheva Foundation to buy special equipment and medicine for hospitals in Moscow and St.Petersburg that treat children with leukemia.
http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=46889&cid=59&p=18.06.2009
Άλλο ένα: Dark Night
Ex-Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and the Russian rock star Andrei Makarevich have recorded a charity album dedicated to Gorbachev’s late wife, Raisa. The CD “Songs for Raisa” came out in one copy and was auctioned off at a charity dinner in London. Igor Siletsky reports.
The CD includes seven of Raisa Gorbacheva’s favorite romantic songs in the rendition by Mikhail Gorbachev himself with Andrei Makarevich playing the background music. The album’s recording was timed for the 10th anniversary of Raisa Gorbacheva’s death from leukemia on September 20th 1999.
The charity dinner was held by the Raisa Gorbacheva Foundation jointly with the Marie Curie Foundation. Among more than 350 guests were London Mayor Boris Johnson, Sara Brown, the wife of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the Russian Ambassador to Britain Yuri Fedotov and a string of other dignitaries, including the Rothemeyer spouses who own Daily Mail, the writer Joan Rowling, actress Vanessa Redgrave and politicians, cultural figures, business representatives and foreign ambassadors.
The performance triggered a standing ovation and storms of applause. The CD was bought for 165 000 dollars by a British philanthropist whose name is not disclosed. All in all, the auction, which was held in London for the fourth time, raised a total of 1.7 million pounds for the Raisa Gorbacheva Foundation to buy special equipment and medicine for hospitals in Moscow and St.Petersburg that treat children with leukemia.
http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&q=46889&cid=59&p=18.06.2009
Άλλο ένα: Dark Night