#Izvestia Hall

[beardedmrbean]

Attacks on police posts, churches and a synagogue in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan have left 20 people dead, most of them police officers. Five gunmen were also killed.

At least 46 people were taken to hospital with injuries after the Sunday evening attack.

Three days of mourning have been declared in Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim republic in southern Russia which neighbours Chechnya.

The apparently coordinated attacks targeted the cities of Derbent and Makhachkala on the Orthodox festival of Pentecost, with an Orthodox priest among those killed.

He was later identified as Father Nikolai Kotelnikov, who had served in Derbent for more than 40 years.

Russian media reported that around 18:00 (15:00 GMT) local time on Sunday, gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons on an Orthodox church and a synagogue in Derbent, which is home to an ancient Jewish community. Two gunmen were said to have then retreated into a nearby building, where police later said they were killed. The Kele-Numaz synagogue was severely damaged by fire.

At around the same time, in the city of Makhachkala, two gunmen ran into an Orthodox church, tried to set fire to its main icon and then opened fire, Izvestia newspaper said. Videos on social media showed heavy shooting also taking place outside the church when gunmen dressed in black took aim at passing police cars with automatic weapons.

A police post near the Makhachkala synagogue was also attacked.

All exits from the city were closed for some time as the interior ministry stated that it was possible the militants' accomplices were preparing to escape the city.

In the nearby village of Sergokala, a police officer was injured a few hours later when a police car was attacked.

Later, the head of the republic of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, said at least 15 police officers were killed in total.

Dagestan has in the past been the scene of Islamist attacks.

Although the assailants have not been officially identified, Russian media widely reported that among the gunmen were two sons of the head of the Sergokala district, Magomed Omarov, who was detained by police.

However, in a video posted on Telegram, Mr Melikov implied Ukraine had been involved in the attack and that Dagestan was now directly involved in Russia's war in Ukraine.

"The war is coming to our homes," Mr Melikov said.

"We understand who is behind the organisation of the terrorist attacks and what goal they pursued," he said.

On Monday, Mr Melikov said authorities were continuing to hunt for members of "sleeper cells" who had prepared the attacks, including with assistance from abroad.

The head of the Russian State Duma's international affairs committee, Leonid Slutsky, put forward similar claims, saying that the Dagestan attacks and a missile strike which killed four in Russia-occupied Sevastopol on Sunday "could not be a coincidence".

"These tragic events, I am sure, were orchestrated from abroad and are aimed at sowing panic and dividing the Russian people," Mr Slutsky said.

But a leading Russian nationalist in occupied Ukraine, Dmitry Rogozin, warned that if every attack was blamed on "the machinations of Ukraine and Nato, this pink mist will lead us to big problems".

An attack on the Crocus City Hall venue near Moscow in March which left 147 dead was blamed by Russian authorities on Ukraine and the West, even though the Islamic State group claimed it.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia's President Vladimir Putin offered his condolences to those who lost loved ones in the attacks on Crimea and Dagestan.

Russian news agencies reported on Monday morning that the counter-terrorism operation launched after the attacks had now come to an end.

Between 2007 and 2017, a jihadist organisation called the Caucasus Emirate, and later the Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus, staged attacks in Dagestan and the neighbouring Russian republics of Chechnya, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.

Following the Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow, President Vladimir Putin had insisted that "Russia cannot be the target of terrorist attacks by Islamic fundamentalists�� because it “demonstrates a unique example of interfaith harmony and inter-religious and inter-ethnic unity”.

However, three months ago Russia’s domestic security service, the FSB, reported that it had thwarted an IS plot to attack a Moscow synagogue.

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Skazi 20 Years

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Москва и The Gazette, waiting for me! Осталось совсем чуть-чуть 😘😘 Газефаны объединяйтесь 😸✌️

[antoine-roquentin]

The clear subtext of the last half-decade of political upheaval has been rising impatience with how difficult it has become to enjoy things once considered the basics of life. Young people leave school saddled in debt, consider themselves lucky if they get health insurance, and are usually so far from being able to imagine owning their own homes or having real professional security that marriage or children seem like absurd, unattainable luxuries.

For older people further along in life, the logistical challenges of mere living have become so outrageous that many have committed to Dickensian work regimes, only to discover that in America, even working overtime costs money. You take a second job to pay for the child care necessitated by the first, and the little ancillary costs that seemed not so serious once — from DMV fees to getting a stove repaired to parking — now trigger a pucker factor just to consider. That’s without even taking into account all the various near-automatically bankrupting endgames built into the American experience that most people try as much as possible not to think about: serious illness, an elderly relative forced into care, divorce, surprise legal problems, etc.

The fact that a year ago, anyone thought it made sense to tell the millions of people forced daily to navigate all this stupidity that they needed to focus on a labyrinthine political controversy in Ukraine — and to blast them for deficits of “sobriety and clarity” when they didn’t — told you everything you needed to know about the cluelessness of the people who run this country.

Then the pandemic happened.

No conspiracy theories are necessary to point out that all of the institutions Americans were in the process of rejecting just a year ago have since increased their power and influence. Be it opportunism or coincidence, the international emergency has written a dramatic heel turn into our history.

A sweeping Fed-based rescue program resulted in enormous booms in asset values, allowing America’s wealthiest to increase their net worth by nearly a trillion dollars since the start of the pandemic (in mid-summer, American billionaires were collectively earning $42 billion per week). The disease pummeled people who actually had to travel to work, while empowering conglomerates like Amazon, which tripled its profits in the third quarter alone. Most of our lives are online now, an ironic reward to intelligence services that went unpunished after illegal surveillance programs were disclosed in the Obama years.

After all that upheaval, the White House is about to be re-occupied by a political fossil from the eighties, surrounded by a zombie cabinet of Iraq War supporters, drone assassination proponents, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and neoliberal economists, coming from places like Amazon, DuPont, and Raytheon (the Pentagon appointment of the current Henry Kissinger Chair from the Center from Strategic and International Studies was a nice homage to the unchangingly vile character of America’s royal court). How bad any of this is in comparison with the chaotic presidency of Donald Trump is arguable, but it surely represents the triumph of Sameness, a powerful reminder that in America, you ultimately can’t beat City Hall. Or can you?

The news in recent years often reads like accounts of America before the Sixties upheavals. That was also a time when long-held myths were rapidly losing force and people were beginning to question the palette of life choices celebrated in places like the Book of the Month Club and Life magazine. Men wondered why they were being sent around the world to kill poor people, only to come home to what Paul Goodman described as a “style of life dictated by Personnel… to work to pay installments on a useless refrigerator.”

Women had it worse, consigned to tend house and give themselves nightly as a reward for men who’d completed their “covenant of murder” in places like Vietnam. Spirituality in much of Jim Crow America was a superficial weekly injunction to conformity at archaic churches and temples, while our real religion, consumerism, became a constant devotional exercise, bolstered by a thousand dazzling commercials for products that people began to realize fulfilled every conceivable need, but the most important.

We’re in such a similar place, and though America’s political leaders learned a great deal from those times — the list of absurd Woke Headlines run here a few days ago chronicles the extremely clever effort to commoditize and sell the desire for political action that had no permissible outlet in the sixties — the reality is, if you keep giving people nothing but crappy choices, they’ll eventually write their own story, even if they can’t do it through voting.

Americans are tired. The rancorous politics they’ve been sold as bread-and-circus diversions are tiring, not laughing is tiring, having too much work and too little money is tiring, being stuck inside now is tiring, even being sexually frustrated is tiring (look at the stats on that one sometime, if you want insight into why so many Americans seemed a tad touchy in recent years). The most exhausting part is the mandate to take it all seriously. Unfortunately for America’s leaders, that’s the easiest part to change, which is why 2021 feels like such a good candidate to be the year things finally begin turning in a happier direction.

Distortions on CNN or in the New York Times drive people crazy, but that’s only because they remember trusting those sources. They’ll forget soon and learn to walk right past mass media blather as if it were just amusingly terrible wallpaper, the way Soviets eventually did with Pravda and Izvestia. Student debt is crushing and college is an overpriced scam, but a reckoning of sorts is coming when people stop being ashamed of vocational school. Facebook and Instagram turbocharged the impact of fear-based “ring around the collar”-style marketing, but what happens when the pandemic recedes and going offline is possible again? Throwing off worries about likes and rediscovering real-life interaction feels destined to become a fashionable dissident statement, in the same way tuning in, turning on, and “dropping out” was an obvious response to the stultifying conformity of the fifties.

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frankieromustdie:  Tonight’s our night Moscow... 6:30pm doors at Izvestia Hall. #FIATFV

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Delain in Moscow Izvestia Hall, 16.02.2019 Photo credit:  Evgeniy Stukalin

[nuclearblastuk]

DORO | Metal Queen releases official video for 'Freunde Fürs Leben'

After a raft of successful summer festival performances this year, DORO is    preparing to continue her Forever Warriors - Forever United World Tour in a few weeks.       

Kicking off the next leg of the tour in Russia and the USA, the band will then be traveling back to Europe for gigs in Germany, UK, Switzerland, Netherlands and Luxemburg. To celebrate the upcoming live dates, our favourite Metal Queen has released the official video for the hit single 'Freunde Fürs Leben' (Friends For Life), taken from her latest album Forever Warriors - Forever United.      

Watch the video for 'Freunde Fürs Leben' here: https://youtu.be/kZ1e9AItu2w        DORO: "The fans love the song as much as I do. The video for 'Freunde Fürs Leben' turned out to be awesome and offers lots of really touching scenes of and with the fans. I wanted this song as my new single and definitely wanted the      video to turn out how it looks right now."        Catch DORO live this year on the following dates:            06.09 RU  Sankt Petersburg - Club Zal                         08.09 RU  Moscow - Izvestia                          10.09 RU  Krasnodar - Arena      11.09 RU  Rostov - Arena        13.09 RU  Kaliningrad - Yantar Hall      13-18.10  USA Los Angeles, CA - MegaCruise      26.10 DE  Düsseldorf - Mitsubishi Eletric Halle      08.11 UK  Motherwell - Firestorm Rocks Festival      09.11 UK  Great Yarmouth - Hard Rock Hell      11.11 LU  Luxembourg - Den Atelier      12.11 CH  Zürich - Komplex 457      15.11 DE  Radolfzell - Milchwerk      16.11 DE  Reutlingen - Stadthalle      17.11 DE  Mannheim - Maimarktclub      19.11 DE  Lübeck - Kulturwerft Gollan      20.11 DE  Wilhelmshaven - Pumpwerk      22.11 DE  Coesfeld - Fabrik      23.11 DE  Bonn - Brückenforum      24.11 NL  Arnhem - Luxor

 Order 'Backstage To Heaven' here physically: http://nblast.de/DoroBackstageToHeaven      Order 'Backstage To Heaven' here digitally: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/backstage-to-heaven-ep/1449880530      Order 'Forever Warriors - Forever United' here: http://nblast.de/DoroForeverWarriors

[bandhyukoh]

‘24′ Tour in Europe

HYUKOH are visiting 13 European cities in the begining of 2019! 

Concert dates: 19.02.26 Manchester  @ Gorilla 19.02.27 London @ Electric Brixton 19.03.01 Paris @ Trianon 19.03.02 Amsterdam @ Melkweg 19.03.03 Brussels @ Ancuenne Belgique 19.03.05 Cologne @ Gloria 19.03.06 Berlin @ Kesselhaus 19.03.07 Frankfurt @ Zoom 19.03.09 Milan @ Lengend Club 19.03.11 Barcelona @ Apolo 19.03.12 Madrid @ Cool Stage  10.03.13 Lisbon @ Capitolio 19.03.15 Moscow @ Izvestia Hall

Pre-sale: Thursday 11th October 2018, 9:00am BST / 10:00am CET . General Sale: Friday 12th October 2018, 9:00am BST / 10:00am CET . More information can be found on HYUKOH’s facebook page. 

[aoshiroyama]

MOSCOW

IZVESTIA HALL

AGAIN 😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[ttherose]

The Rose 2017 “Paint It Rose” tour in Europe schedule 

2/16 – Brussels, Belgium (La Madeleine)

2/18 – Moscow, Russia (Izvestia Hall)

2/23 – Istanbul, Turkey (UNIQ Glass Room)

2/24 – London, UK (ULU Live)

2/25 – Budapest, Hungary (Durer Kert)

[rockcult]

Фотоотчет | СБПЧ в Москве | Известия Hall | 07.03.2021

https://rockcult.ru/report/photo-sbp4-msk-izvestia-hall-07-03-2021/

[taka-oneokrock]

At Izvestia hall in Moscow, Aug.30 📷 Екатерина Захлебина

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Skazi 20 Years

[rockandblognet]

DORO. Nuevo vídeo para el tema "Freunde Fürs Leben"

DORO presenta su nuevo vídeo para el sencillo «Freunde Fürs Leben», único tema en alemaán de su último álbum «Forever Warriors – Forever United»

¡Después de muchas grandes presentaciones de festivales de verano, DORO ahora se dirige a otra gira mundial! Primero girando por Rusia y los EE. UU., La banda viajará de regreso a Europa para conciertos en Alemania, el Reino Unido, Suiza, los Países Bajos y Luxemburgo.   Mientras tanto nos llega el nuevo video de su nuevo sencillo ‘Freunde Für´s Leben’ (Friends For Life). Una canción profundamente amada por sus seguiidores y la única canción en alemán en su último y exitoso álbum de estudio doble «Forever Warriors – Forever United». ¡El álbum se ubicó más alto que cualquier otro álbum de DORO anteriormente en Alemania, y también alcanzó el puesto número 1 en las listas de vinilo y el número 4 en las listas oficiales alemanas!

Estge es el video de ‘Freunde Für’s Leben’ :

Fechas de la gira de Doro en 2019 2020

06.09.        RU       Sankt Petersburg – Club Zal              

08.09.        RU       Moscow – Izvestia               

10.09.        RU       Krasnodar – Arena

11.09.        RU       Rostov – Arena  

13.09.        RU       Kaliningrad – Yantar Hall

13. – 18.10.     USA     Los Angeles, CA – MegaCruise

09.11.              UK       Camp HRH – Hard Rock Hell *SOLD OUT*

26.10.        DE         Düsseldorf – Mitsubishi Eletric Halle

08.11.        UK         Motherwell – Firestorm Rocks Festival

09.11.        UK         Great Yarmouth – Hard Rock Hell

11.11.        LU          Luxembourg – Den Atelier

12.11.        CH         Zürich – Komplex 457

15.11.        D           Radolfzell – Milchwerk

16.11.        D           Reutlingen – Stadthalle

17.11.        D           Mannheim – Maimarktclub

19.11.        D           Lübeck – Kulturwerft Gollan

20.11.        D           Wilhelmshaven – Pumpwerk

22.11.        D           Coesfeld – Fabrik

23.11.        D           Bonn – Brückenforum

24.11.        NL          Arnhem – Luxor

DORO. Nuevo vídeo para el tema «Freunde Fürs Leben» en el artículo original de Rock and Blog

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frankieromustdie: Psyched for these 2 Future Violent Russian headline shows! Starts tomorrow in St. Petersburg at Morze! Then Moscow at Izvestia Hall! See you at the show xofrnk

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Delain in Moscow Izvestia Hall, 16.02.2019  Photo Credit:  Evgeniy Stukalin