Nashe Radio Unveils an All New Fest.

(From The Moscow Times)

Love and peace are far from catchwords at this year's Nashestviye, the massive outdoor music festival sometimes known as the Russian Woodstock.

Organizers at the popular radio station Nashe Radio canceled this year's festivities after the suicide bombings at the Krylya rock festival in June put them on a collision course with local authorities. But the show will go on -- at least on the air -- with a two-day live recording session at Nashe Radio's studio to include all the bands that would have performed on the festival's outdoor stage.

If all had gone according to plan, ticketholders would have arrived at the Ramenskoye Hippodrome on Friday to set up tents and prepare for the two days of music that would have begun early Saturday morning and continued through Sunday.

"It's the biggest Russian open-air festival. You can't find this many bands at any other festival in Russia," Nashe Radio press officer Yelena Khatrusova said of the annual event, which was to have been held for the fourth time this year.

But all didn't go according to plan. Khatrusova said that Nashe Radio had been receiving negative feedback from the local government in Ramenskoye, where municipal elections are to be held ...