By Vladimir Kozlov t.A.T.u. Cannes Performance 2008 - P 2014 Formed in 1999 by producer Ivan Shapovalov, who selected then-14-year-old Volkova and 15-year-old Katina from scores of candidates ...

Ivan Shapovalov, 36, had arranged a video shoot with 200 girls yards from the Kremlin. He told the teenage extras to cavort and kiss in front of Lenin’s tomb and the church of St Basil.

"It looks like Russia does not care for t.A.t.U. representing its country," said their producer, Ivan Shapovalov, after failing to get permission to let the filming go ahead. The duo, whose skimpy ...