German BILD newspaper followed Dieter Bohlen on his Moscow adventure. Vegas Mall was in German biggest newspaper and Dieter Bohlen said, It was great, and I he is honored to have a star in Moscow. A fantastic evening with Steven Seagal at NOBU @ Crocus City closed Dieter's Moscow adventure.

Emin Agarlov gets another burst of energy, picks up his cell phone on business, apologizes for interrupting the conversation, and continues drawing geometric figures on a sheet of paper. Is he still in contact with Donald Trump? "No. You do not call a US president every day. "A look through and out of the office reminds you where you are actually located. In the Crocus City, just outside the Moscow authoring MKAD, already in the Krasnogorsk region, in a 90-hectare satellite city. 14 skyscrapers will stand here once. At least that's what the generous planning looks like. It is already a center of business and entertainment. Inside the shopping mall, lovers of luxury items and ordinary consumers are separated by an escalator ride. The Times Square of New York, the Rockefeller Center, skating in summer were rebuilt. Then maybe a drink at the marina on the Moskva.Everything seems possible here and will be presented accordingly. Artificially created, but suitable as proof of the superiority of capital and its associated system.Anyway, it's another universe. Where the everyday image of Russia disappears, one dives into a world of billionaire business and relationships with the highest circles, which one must never know and sometimes do not want to get to know. Because Emin Agarlov is a businessman, but actually a passionate musician and one of Russia's biggest pop stars, won awards neatly lined up in the room. From the BBC, twice for the best single, or once for the best album in England. Behind it is the father. Aras Agarlov, Azerbaijan-born contractor and billionaire, smiles from the front page of Forbes magazine. The World Cup stadiums in Kaliningrad and Rostov-on-Don are his contribution to this World Cup.Continue talking. How and when did the paths actually cross with Trump? A meeting that was to play a medial role in the Russian involvement in Trump's presidential election years later.
rich and beautifulIt happened six years ago in Las Vegas. Trump still invested in real estate and long since in gossip media presence. For example, in the Miss Universe 2012 event. Emin Agarlov was a guest and was looking for a beauty for a music video. So why not take the winner right away, the American Olivia Culpo? "She wanted 5000 dollars for the shoot. Per day. "Agarlov hired her. "But only for two days."One year later, Women's Election 2013 in Crocus City on the outskirts of Moscow. The Agarlovs had acquired the license. And the guest of honor Donald Trump at the same time. Again Emin used the acquaintance for his music. Trump says as a video actor in the title "In Another Life" one of his favorite sentences: "You're fired."Fired was the beginning of a confused story. One in which Emin Agarlov and his father played a role when a Russian lawyer claimed that she had information about Hillary Clinton, which was profitable information for her competitor Trump in the US election campaign.

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Emin Agarlov smiles. Charming, of course. End of the topic. Much more disturbs him the relationship of Western Europe to Russia. "Russia is always portrayed as an enemy. That speaks against a logical and good economic connection. "But what about Trump and Europe? Good relationships look different. "Trump was always a businessman, and he was always the way he is now. That's no surprise. "In the future Agarlov wants to invest in environmentally friendly traffic. Electric cars and the necessary infrastructure as a business idea. He is advised by Georg Redlhammer, a Upper Austrian. The "Mobilistic", aside MIAS, the biggest car show in Russia taking place in the Crocus City, is supposed to make a start this coming August. A vision of the future? "Maybe," says Agarlov, "but people will accept it as soon as they realize they are getting the money."Back to the metro station Mjakinino. Back to a familiar world. The doors close and lock the passengers into the past. The fall of communism has not affected many carriages of the Moscow subway. So you rumbles in infinitely perceived time intervals from station to station to the interior of the huge city. One and a half hours you need to the center. Time that used to be used to read books. Moscow was once famous for its high readership in the underground. Today, like everywhere else in the world, this is done by the smartphone.

Only in the Abat-Street, the first pedestrian street in Moscow, in which people step on each other's feet, a loud screaming man keeps the memory alive. What is he doing there for the best? "Pushkin," says one in four listeners. Holds the index finger in front of the closed mouth. One has to listen quietly in such rare moments.Moscow remains the city of contrasts, between the present and the past. To the pain line shrill in its center. Dinner at White Rabbit on the 16th floor, Panna Cotta, decadently served in a shell, which in turn almost disappears in a spectacular tin bowl filled with ice cubes.
rightly GewiesenOne thinks of this oversized Lenin standing in front of the Luzhniki Stadium on a pedestal looking towards the arriving. With a strict view. No wonder, capitalism is raging at its feet and FIFA is selling its fan articles.It is enough.Back to the pretty quiet hotel. However, deprived of liveliness and reminiscent of darker times, once one emerges from a metro station that sounds like, for example, a sudden sneeze, but is called Nizhegorodskaya.

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