Alla Pugacheva to open Slavic Bazaar in Vitebsk

Russia’s famous singer Alla Pugacheva will partake in the opening ceremony of the 17th international arts festival “Slavic Bazaar in Vitebsk”, First Deputy Culture Minister of Belarus Vladimir Rylatko told BelTA. The cast of the opening gala on July 11 will be really star-studded. The cast includes Nikolai Baskov, Nedezhda Kadysheva and her group Zolotoye Koltso, Tamara Gvertsiteli, Iosif Kobson, Maksim Galkin, Laima Vaikule and also the participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 Diana Gurtskaya (Georgia), Jelena Tomasevic (Serbia), and Ani Lorak (Ukraine). Venezuela will send its dance folk group “Folklore Cochense”. The concert will also feature a dance company from Egypt and a circus group from China. A special guest in Vitebsk will be famous musician Riccardo Cocciante from France, who will be in charge of the jury of the singers contest. Belarus will be represented by Anatoly Yarmolenko and his Syabry group, Pesnyary group, dance company “Khoroshki”, Igor Luchenok, Irina Dorofeyeva and Ruslan Alekhno.