Posted on 03/21/2023 10:29:03 AM PDT by dennisw
The founder of a pop group whose song became an anthem during anti-war protests in Russia has died by drowning aged 34 on Sunday.
Dima Nova—whose given name was Dmitry Svirgunov—founded the popular electronic group Cream Soda, and criticized Russian President Vladmir Putin's alleged $1.3 billion mansion in the song "Aqua Disco." The song was often sung at protests before and in the early days of Russia's military invasion of Ukraine and the protests quickly became known as "Aqua Disco Parties."
Nova fell through ice while crossing Russia's Volga river in the Yaroslavl region, north east of Moscow, according to Russian news website People Talk. He was with his brother Roma and two friends.
Cream Soda became icons of the anti-war movement when comedian Alexander Gudkov used one of their songs to poke fun at Putin who had been accused of building an opulent $1.3 billion mansion near Gelendzhik on Russia's southern Black Sea coast using the proceeds of corruption.
Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, an outspoken critic of Putin, published a video on YouTube in January 2021 that claimed the palace complex featured a 190,500-square-foot mansion incorporating a theater, cinema and casino.
"Putin's friends, who received from him the right to steal whatever they wanted in Russia, thanked him a lot. But they also chipped in, collected 100 billion rubles and built a palace for their boss with this money," Navalny said in the film made by his Anti-Corruption Foundation.
A Kremlin spokesman at the time dismissed the claims as "pure nonsense."
Dubbed "Putin's Palace," some of the rooms in the mansion quickly went viral as people joked about its hookah lounge and a room with an unknown used simply called "aquatic disco."
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Here it is the vaxxxxxx that will get you. In Russia it is Putin and his FSB that will kill you. Unexpectedly.
Well they are getting more creative, it used to be "Kremlin Flu".
Arkancide is now an international phenomenon
He drowned after falling out a window.
Well, at least he didn’t fall out of a window..............
I didn’t read the whole article but what did Dima Nova have on the Clintons?
He have heart attack and fell out of window onto exploding bomb, and was killed in a shooting accident.
“Nova fell through ice while crossing Russia’s Volga river in the Yaroslavl region, north east of Moscow, according to Russian news website People Talk. He was with his brother Roma and two friends.”
Putin probably had Spetznaz out there the night before, tapping the ice with a ball peen hammer to make micro cracks where the ignoramus was going to cross the Volga in spring on an ice sheet when the daily high has been about 40F.
That is some serious skill.
Putin has likely killed some political opponents - so let’s put our troops on Russia’s borders, engage in subversive color revolution against them and their allies, push them into the arms of China, bankrupt Europe, and give away all our weapons while we simultaneously start WWIII
Yeah - that’s a brilliant response!
Nove was so hot, he melted the ice and fell through?
In Soviet Russia, ice falls through you.
Suicide. He shot himself in the head 3 times.
As opposed to being found dead PRIOR to drowning?
Lol! This is Putin’s version of the new dance step, that one
called ‘The Aqua Disco’.
That’s the worst case of suicide I’ve ever seen.
Yes
Shouldn’t you be taking a selfie with your lunch and posting it to Facebook?
Any relation to Aldo?
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