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Madonna concert moved
12/09/2006 07:01 - (SA)
Moscow - Pop star Madonna's Russian
concert was pushed back a day to avoid performing on the fifth
anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States, a
Russian organiser said on Monday.
Organisers announced late last month the concert would go
ahead on September 12 instead of the September 11 date they had
originally planned.
"We decided that to hold the concert on that day would have
been unethical," Vladimir Kiselyov, General Director of concert
co-organiser FGUP Kreml, told NTV television.
The concert will be Madonna's first in Russia. Organisers
moved it to a football stadium after police warned the original
venue was too small to handle the thousands of fans expected to
turn out.
The pop star flew in to Moscow's Vnukovo airport on Monday
and checked into a hotel behind the Bolshoi Theatre and a short
walk from Red Square and the Kremlin.
About 100 fans were camped on the street outside. They
caught a brief glimpse of Madonna as she left the hotel to go to
an evening engagement.
- Reuters
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