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Posted: 24 Oct 2012 05:50 AM PDT

MOSCOW: The jailed Pussy Riot punks, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina have arrived at prison camps in remote Russian regions, a defence lawyer said Wednesday.

"Tolokonnikova has arrived at corrective labour camp 14 in Mordovia and Alyokhina has arrived at camp 32 in Perm," lawyer Violetta Volkova told the Interfax news agency.

"We do not have official information. I found this out from my sources, they checked it," Volkova added.

The Russian prison service is obliged to inform the women's relatives of their location within 10 days of their arrival.

The Mordovia camp, known for its harsh conditions, is the same one where the only woman convicted in the Yukos oil case that saw the jailing of Russia's former richest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky, lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina, served time from 2006 until October 2008.

The Perm camp is seen as a more pleasant option since it is in a city, although Perm is about 1,400 kilometres from Moscow where Alyokhina's young son lives.

The two women were sentenced to two years for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after they performed a "punk prayer" in a Moscow cathedral.

Bandmate Yekaterina Samutsevich was released on appeal with a suspended sentence because guards grabbed her before she could take part.

Bakhmina, now 43, told New Times opposition magazine that Camp No. 14 had no hot water and the only way to wash was once a week in a Turkish-style bath. Some women used to open radiator valves in winter to get warm water, she said.

While Bakhmina was convicted of the financial crime of embezzlement, she said she lived and slept in a section including murderers.

If Volkova is correct, Tolokonnikova will be in the same camp as Yevgenia Khasis, the partner of a nationalist activist who shot a rights lawyer and a journalist in broad daylight in Moscow in 2009.

Khasis was sentenced to 18 years for complicity in the murders.

The regional prison service posted photographs of a recent visitors' day at the camp showing the women in shabby green jackets and trousers meeting family members and in the prison chapel.

The camp's prisoners bake cookies for sale and sew uniforms, the prison service said.

Mordovia in central Russia is a region dotted with lakes that has a large number of prison camps, which grew up in the 1930s as part of the Stalin-era GULAG system of labour camps. -AFP

Thirst for Justice

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 03:06 AM PDT

LAST December, it was a high flying Dutchman - Tiesto - who turned the Thirst outdoor party upside down in Kuala Lumpur. Over 25,000 punters made it a bumper event to remember. This year, make way for the French electro brigade and more A-list highlights.

As we speak, the party just got bigger for the upcoming Thirst 2012 at Sepang International Circuit in Kuala Lumpur on Dec 8 with French electronic duo Justice - featuring Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé - added to the line-up. Thirst 2012 is presented by Heineken.

With the duo's retro rock band T-shirts, scruffy looks, slick leather jackets and explosive live sets, Justice is definitely a crossover act to appeal to the electro and indie rock masses.

Elsewhere, French electro mavericks Brodinski and Gesaffelstein are already on the list with young Swedish superstar DJ-producer Avicii (aka Tim Bergling) also tapped for the event. Veteran British trance group Above & Beyond will also make a return visit to these parts.

Homegrown deejays and crews like Blink and Goldfish, LapSap, HypeEmBeats + Jee Hoe, Mr Nasty & GuruGuru, Phil K Lee, Nick Haydez and Tommy Cham will need no introduction as they fire up the decks with local flavour.

Thirst 2012 early-bird tickets (RM108) will be available only at Rock Corner, The Curve, Mutiara Damansara, Selangor from Oct 31 to Nov 4. Pre-sale tickets (RM128) will be available at all Rock Corner outlets from Nov 5 to Dec 7. Tickets will also be available online at www.myticket.my from Nov 5. More details at www.heineken.com/my.

Whitney Houston's family share struggles in reality show

Posted: 24 Oct 2012 01:01 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Making a TV reality show may not be the most obvious way to cope with the sudden death of a loved one, but most families don't count an icon like Whitney Houston among their relatives.

Less than a year after the I Will Always Love You singer drowned accidentally in a hotel bath tub after taking cocaine, Houston's teen daughter, her mother, brother and sister-in-law share with the world their struggle to cope in The Houstons: On Our Own.

Difficult as that is, the Houstons say that making the 14- episode show for cable channel Lifetime has helped rather than hindered the process.

"The show has kept the family close together, (instead of) isolated from one another. We talk about things, we are very open, and we pay attention to the ones who need consoling the most. Doing the show certainly has helped in a huge way," Pat Houston, Whitney's manager and sister-in-law, told Reuters.

"There are preconceptions about the family that just aren't true. We are a strong family, a working family, and a typical family. Our family member just happens to be an icon," she added. "You will see a family that is grieving, that loves one another. You will see a family that is trying to move on."

The series, which makes its debut in the States this week, sets the stage for a slew of November tributes to the troubled singer with the golden voice. Upcoming projects include an official glossy book of photos, a compilation album of Houston's biggest hits that features a new duet version of I Look To You with R. Kelly, and the November 16 TV broadcast of a special Grammy tribute starring Jennifer Hudson, Usher and Celine Dion.

Few of the many public salutes to Houston since her February death have touched on her well-publicised addiction to drugs and her tumultuous personal life. Yet the TV series delves into some of family's thorniest issues.

BOBBI KRISTINA IN SPOTLIGHT

Using some of Houston's soaring ballads to set the tone, including her 2003 single On My Own, the show opens with the family in their Atlanta, Georgia home days before the first Mother's Day without Whitney and their first visit to her grave.

Her daughter and only heir to the estate, Bobbi Kristina, 19, is finding solace in an alcoholic beverage, and the arms of Nick Gordon, 23, - the teen Whitney Houston took into the family home when he was a troubled high school student.

"We were best friends a long time ago, and now I am in love with him," Bobbi Kristina explains on camera, before telling appalled family members at a dinner that she and Gordon are engaged, and that she is looking to launch a recording career of her own.

Pat Houston, who in the show's first episode is firmly against any engagement, declined to address the couple's current relationship status. "It's a journey. You've just got to watch the show," she told Reuters last week.

The notion of putting Bobbi Kristina in the spotlight so soon after her mother's death, and the singer's messy 2007 divorce from singer Bobby Brown, sparked public dismay when the reality show was announced in May.

Bobbi Kristina was hospitalized twice with anxiety in February 2012 after her mother Houston, 48, was found drowned in a Beverly Hills hotel from what officials later said was a combination of cocaine use and heart disease.

But Pat Houston said that reality shows were nothing new for the Houston clan. Whitney Houston's chaotic relationship with Bobby Brown was chronicled in the 2005 TV series Being Bobby Brown and Pat Houston's life as the singer's longtime manager was featured on the more recent show Power BrokHers.

"We have always been involved in negotiations for a reality show even when Whitney was alive. So this is really no different It's nothing new to the family," she said.

Houston said she hoped the new show would help Whitney's fans come to terms with her death, as much as it is helping the family.

"It is almost giving them closure in seeing the types of people she had around her, and then hearing her music...and (it is a chance) for them to remember the good instead of all the negativity that may have surrounded her life in the past decade," she said.

As for the future, "There will be bumps and grinds as there always will be. But we know how to handle that and keep it moving because we love Whitney, and we love what she represents with her music and we hope her fans continue to do the same with her legacy," Houston said.

Kredit: www.thestar.com.my

Rabu, 24 Oktober 2012

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