Date: 2011-03-23 and 25
Venue: Olimpiysky Sports Complex (Moscow) and IEC (Kiev)
Moscow, Russia and Kiev, Ukraine

This year I decided to go and see two Deep Purple gigs in the same tour – in Moscow where I live and […]

On March 22 Deep Purple were guests of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at his official residence in Gorki, near Moscow. They reportedly had some tea (at least while the press was around). Medvedev Jr., aged 15, got a chance […]

On his official website, JonLord.org, the maestro has confirmed three concerts for October.

The dates and cities are:

Oct 9 - Yekaterinburg, Russia - tickets
Oct 12 - St. Petersburg, Russia - tickets
Oct 15 - Moscow, Russia - tickets

At the concerts […]

On arrival for the brief visit to Moscow, an extremely tired and jetlagged Big Ian gave an interview on April 17 to Nevsky Express TV. Here are the excerpts from his stream of consciousness on his solo album, quantum theory, religion […]

It is Easter weekend in Russia and Moscow fans are celebrating it at the B1 club, where Deep Purple are playing two gig in a setting unusually intimate for a Purple gig in that country. The two setlist surprises on […]

Russian web site DrumSpeech.com has posted more footage of Paicey’s drum clinic in Moscow from February 7.

Thanks to bloodsucker from the deep-purple.ru forum for the info.

Back in early February, Ian Paice flew to Moscow to do a drum clinic. A TV crew was present at the event and the footage have appeared on Russian national TV. Recording of this was recently uploaded to YouTube.

This April Deep Purple are going to make a stop in Moscow on the way from Japan to Poland. Today Russian promoters SAV Entertainment have confirmed that the band will play two gigs at the Club B1 Maximum on April […]

Over The Rainbow management has issued a press release concerning ticket sales for the first 3 OTR shows in Belarus and Russia. It appears that out of the three shows one was oversold and the other two very nearly sold […]

Here’s a video from the recent Paicey’s visit to Moscow, where he held a drum clinic on Ferbuary 8. Sadly, the interview bits are overdubbed in Russian.