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TATU to run for president of Russia ...together The TATU pop duet intends to run in Russia-s presidential elections in March, a spokeswoman of the Neformat centre told reporters on Thursday, 25 December 2003. ''We are going to collect signatures in support of proposing TATU as a candidate in the presidential elections in the Moscow Palace of Youth on Saturday. TATU are running together. We cannot separate the girls,'' the spokeswoman said. She did not elaborate on how the decision corresponds with Russian law which says nothing about dual candidacies for the head of state, but by doing so TATU-s...

A group of teenagers is gathered at a party. Music's playing; smuggled booze is flowing. Two girls grin sheepishly at each other as a crowd goads them on. Finally, the teens relent, rewarding their audience with some mouth-on-mouth action. It's not an unusual scene, according to South Florida high school students, who say the newest trend for teen girls isn't wearing the latest designer jeans or driving a cool car, but declaring themselves to be bisexual.

Speaking of Tatu's performance [at the European Music Festival]-they gave a horrible performance. However their song souded very modern on the recently released compact disc of the festival.Eurovision songs are not primitive , they are competently done, but always sterotypically the same- typical melodies, typical tunes, a bit of Latino style throw in to make them a little bit livelier. Tatu's performance was not mischevious: the two girls did not kiss each other, they didn't take their clothes off, they did not wear tops with obscene writing on them.The voting was totally unbalanced though. Great Britain did not vote for...

[The Russian girl pop group] T.A.T.U. got more flak last week for improvising another smooch fest while performing on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.When the live to tape program aired, the camera cut away from the scene.'That was just stupid,' [TATU group member] Lena Katina says. 'I don't know why they were afraid. America should be open, especially about love.'She was less surprised, she acknowledeges, by the shocked reaction to the Russian messages emblazened on T.A.T.U.'s T-Shirts, which demounced the prospect of war with Iraq in terms far more colorful than Vladimir Putin has used.'People are afraid of truth,'...