A day in the life …
Today it was announced that the legendary British band Deep Purple will perform in the Kremlin this month as part of the 25th anniversary celebration for Gazprom, the biggest extractor of natural gas in the world. Attendance will be by invitation only. Possible attendees include Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The latter is also president of the Board of Directors of Gazprom, not to mention the beneficiary of Putin’s nod to succeed him. It turns out Deep Purple is Medvedev’s favorite group, and “Smoke on the Water” his favorite song.
Meanwhile, the head of the Moscow Guild of Markets and Street Fairs, Yevgeny Chivilikhin, was gunned down in an apparent contract killing. He escaped an earlier attempt on his life at the same spot in the summer of 2006 when he stepped inside No. 4 Leningrad Prospect seconds before a bomb went off. Chivilikhin was also codirector of the trade group Timiryazevsky.
