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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It was a joke
Russia on Ice, Porcupine Tree.
The only question - has Putin killed more opponents than the Clintons?
Wouldn’t Fauci call that a covid death?
“Our Dima Nova, in the company of friends, was walking along the Volga and fell under the ice. The Ministry of Emergency Situations are still looking for his brother Roma and friend, Gosha Kiselev. Aristarchus, our friend who also fell under the ice, was caught, but could not be saved.”
Sounds like stupidity more than the usual Putincide
190,500sq/ft vacation home.
Imagine a neighborhood with 190 1,000sq/ft homes...
Something like this but need more homes.
https://tinyurl.com/bdcvjwua
Did his recent polonium injection melt the ice? (Since we seem to have hit the other methods of “natural” death by Putin’s does)
But has he killed more men than Cecil B. DeMille?
In Soviet Russia, Seth Rich falls through ice.
Yep, no accidents in Russia since 862 AD. Putin has been killing Russians for a long long time. He was a Viking then. Any attempt to cut through your stupid would dull a plasma bit.
Facts don’t matter. Only the narrative matters. And the more ignorant the better.
Trust Newsweek.
A one and a two and a three -- Don't poke the bear. Now say it all together now - Don't poke the bear.
Too bad!
We had a couple local guys here last week who lived after drowning.
Jeffery Epstein, Seth Rich and...The Clinton Body Count:
https://www.conservapedia.com/Clinton_body_count
A closer relation might be Bossa Nova...
yesterday, he suggested he might bomb the Hague>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Being an anti Schwab, anti Globalist , and a renunciate of Utopian Fascism, I would help Pooty pull that lanyard.
BTW, the USA is NOT a signatory member of the International Criminal Court, somehow we maintained our sovereignty.. Our latest contribution though was the same a$$ hat who worked at ICC who is now special persecutor of Donald Trump...the fascist a$$hat, Mr. Jack (Off) Smith.
Pooty could bomb the Hague into a glowing crater the size of Manhattan and it would be a good thing.
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