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The ceremony of presenting state awards took place in the Kremlin. Among the recipients was the leader of the Reflex group Irina Nelson: the singer was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree. According to the official wording, the singer was awarded “for high professionalism, many years of artistic activity, a wealth of accumulated experience and a great personal contribution to the development of youth, popularization of the image of kindness and romance, active life position, promotion of the principles of non-violence and an impeccable reputation."
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The laureates included large number people from various fields of activity - science, sports, politics, business, culture. Among them were famous actors theater, cinema and pop Alexander Kalyagin, Sergei Nikonenko and Mikhail Derzhavin. Irina herself admitted that she was very worried at the award ceremony:
I want to sincerely thank everyone for the unanimous opinion that I truly deserved this award! That my more than 20 years of creativity did not go unnoticed. I started as a solo singer in a pop project, then became the creator and leader of the trendy group #Reflex, and now, despite the busy tour schedule, I started working on a new one social project aimed at improving the health of our nation.
True, not everyone agrees that the singer deserved such an award. Bloggers have created a real scandal on the Internet. Lena Miro was outraged by Nelson's statement that she deserves this award:
- “I really deserved this award” - how to react to this? No one remembers, no one knows, but the medal is deserved. They called me to the Kremlin, handed me over, shook my hand and poured me champagne. I took a photo on the street, came home and posted it on social networks. She deserved it. Worthy. In addition to intense artistic activity, Irina is also involved in social projects that are aimed at improving the health of the nation. How she makes this nation healthier is completely clear to me personally - we have such health providers a dime a dozen. I don’t even know how to feel about state awards after this. Do you know?
Journalist Natalya Radulova made a selection of piquant photos of Irina Nelson. In the comments to the material, subscribers confirmed: Nelson from Reflex is remembered exactly like this - half naked.
Like the state, like the heroes.
Beautiful woman. Who is our husband?
By the way, Irina Nelson’s husband, composer and producer Vyacheslav Tyurin, reacted furiously to criticism on the networks. He promises to “find out” and “bury” everyone who criticizes his wife:
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In 2006, the singer was already awarded the medal of the Order of “Professional of Russia” for her impeccable, long-term work and contribution to the culture of Russia.
Reflex
- The Reflex group was created in 1999 by Irina Nelson’s husband, producer and musician Vyacheslav Tyurin. The team has received 17 national music awards.
- The group, in addition to Irina Nelson herself, included Olga Kosheleva and Denis Davidovsky. “As soon as the decision was made to come up with a name for this whole action,” recalls Vyacheslav Tyurin, we began to read all the inscriptions around and one day we saw this word. “Reflection” translated from Latin means reflection, and it seemed to us that Reflex is exactly the word that accurately reflects our inner world.”
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July 7 in the Catherine Hall of the Kremlin. State awards were presented to figures in art, science, and politics. The head of the AP, Anton Eduardovich Vaino, solemnly presented Irina Anatolyevna Tyurina (Irina Nelson, lead singer of the Reflex group) with the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree, “for high professionalism, many years of artistic activity, rich accumulated experience and great personal contribution to the development of youth, popularizing the image of kindness and romance, an active life position, promoting the principles of non-violence and an impeccable reputation.”
“You know, I’m certainly very excited! - said Irina. - But already now, I can say that my Instagram was simply heating up with congratulations and reviews, and first of all, I want to sincerely thank everyone for the unanimous opinion that I really deserved this award! That my more than 20-year-old creativity has not gone unnoticed. I started as a solo singer in a pop project, then became the creator and leader of the ultra-fashionable group “Reflex” and now, despite a busy touring schedule, I have begun work on a new social project aimed at improving the health of our nation. And here, standing in Catherine's Palace Kremlin, among venerable and respected people, I am the only girl from show business who was awarded this medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland!”
What kind of group is this "Reflex"? 
Why was this lady given a state award? Where is “the great personal contribution to the development of youth, the popularization of the image of kindness and romance, an active life position, the promotion of the principles of non-violence and an impeccable reputation”?
In the first video, suicide is generally promoted, because... the young man jumped from the balcony. What is romantic and good about this? Why did the current order-bearer let water into the apartment and try to swim in it together with another lady? Whose apartment is this? Suicides? He couldn't pay the downstairs neighbors for the damage? Or is he tired of the water on the floor that his madam won’t clean up? Or should this be understood metaphorically, and the point is that the unfortunate man fell in love with a lesbian?
Does Tyurina have an impeccable reputation? Indeed, she is married, but why then would she act without underwear, why would she pretend to be a lesbian?
Why should an older singer from some unknown group, who has been playing the role of a priestess of same-sex love for many years, be given a medal?
As they once sang in ditties: “They gave the nurse a red star for her pussy”? But the nurse at least pulled soldiers out of the battlefield, and what good did Irina Nelson do? Have you sung at corporate events and private parties?
It seems that the people at the top are going crazy. I remember the last thing Gorbachev managed to do was to give Alla Pugacheva the title of People's Artist of the USSR.
The initiator of the Irina Nelson award was the producer of the group “Earthlings” Vladimir Kiselyov
An unexpectedly strong reaction from the public was caused by the recent news that Russian President Vladimir PUTIN awarded the medal of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, 2nd class, to the soloist of the group “Reflex” Irina TYURINA,previously performing under the stage nameDIANA, and then took the pseudonym Irina NELSON. Many people remember her scandalous erotic photo shoots with hints of lesbian relationships, which were full of glossy magazines at the beginning " zero."“How could such a person be given a state award?” - the zealous guardians of other people's morality were indignant. And such dirty insinuations were poured into the address of the 55-year-old woman, who had long since become a grandmother, that it was even indecent to repeat them.
In fact Iru Nelson“They started to kill me completely unfairly,” her husband and producer stood up for the “Reflex” soloist Valeria Joseph Prigogine. - There are just notable artists. And there are artists who sit quietly. Their activities receive little coverage in the media. And the general public is unaware of their worthy deeds. Ira is just that case. She traveled to Syria and other hot spots, supported Russian soldiers. As far as I know, this was the main argument for her award.
Joseph believes that his VALERIA is worthy of all kinds of awards
For that matter, she was not awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, but only a medal of this order. Actually just an icon. But even such an award cannot be received just like that. You need to go through a certain procedure. First, a person is nominated for an award labor collective or public organization, in which he is a member. A whole package of documents is being collected confirming his merits.
Then these documents are reviewed by the heads of the authorities executive branch. And only after that they are approved by the president. For example, Leroux nominated for the title of Honored Artist in 2005 International Union figures pop art, of which she is a board member. I don’t know who nominated Ira Nelson. But since her documents passed all authorities, it means that she really deserved this award.
Vladimir KISELEV with his wife Elena, singing under the pseudonym NORTH. Photo: Instagram.com
People with machine guns
It turned out that for the “dangerous tour” not only the soloist of “Reflex” was awarded medals, but also several other show business figures - “ people's artist» Alexey Goman, lead singer of the group "Russians" Grigory Semin, drummer and director of the group "Zemlyane" Anatoly Shenderova, and also executive director"Russian Radio" Elena Kiseleva- wife of the producer of “Earthlings” and “Russians” Vladimir Kiselev.
Yes, last year we went on a tour of Donbass together - Nelson, “Earthlings”, “Russians” and I,” confirmed Alexey Goman, who was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st degree. - We performed everywhere for free. We were driven to the concert in Gorlovka along a road located near the border with Ukraine. Our bus was escorted by the police. And on the bus with us there were people with machine guns. As we were told, there were snipers working there. Of course it was creepy. But nothing...
After paparazzi shooting the site in 1996... Photo by Nikolai VOLKOV
The main thing is that the audience was satisfied. They are tired of the war there. And they sincerely rejoiced at our songs. Moreover, they were not asked to do anything patriotic. We sang to them mainly about love, in order, on the contrary, to distract people from this whole situation. I don’t know who organized this tour. Perhaps “Russian Radio”. Perhaps someone from the DPR and LPR. I didn't go into it. For this I have a director. And my job is to go out and sing.
They called me and asked: “Will I go to Donbass?” “I’ve been there before,” I said. - Why not? And who nominated us for awards doesn’t matter to me either. This is not the first time I have received them. I have a medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class. There is gratitude from the president. I've been working for a long time. I visited the referendum in Crimea and flew to Syria. That’s why I sang “Russian Guy” so that I would be invited to such events.
...the whole of Russia learned about the singer DIANA and her husband, composer and producer Vyacheslav TYURIN. Photo by Nikolay VOLKOV Put herself in danger
The proposal for a tour of the Donbass came from our producer Vladimir Kiselev,” another awardee, “earthman” Anatoly Shenderov, showed great awareness. “He, together with the military department, initiated our nomination for awards. I don’t understand why anyone was so outraged by Irina Nelson’s award. Not all artists agreed to go to the hot spot. And she went. She put herself in danger. At any moment, you know where something could come from. Didn't she have the right to get a medal for this?
On July 10, ex-singer of the pop group Reflex Irina Nelson was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree. The singer received a medal “for high professionalism, many years of artistic activity, rich accumulated experience and great personal contribution to the development of youth, popularization of the image of kindness and romance, active life position, promotion of the principles of non-violence and impeccable reputation.”
Nelson immediately shared the good news on her Instagram.
A post shared by Irina Nelson Irene Nelson (@irinanelson) on Jul 10, 2017 at 12:57am PDT
From the public, such an award caused bewilderment and a flurry of criticism in social networks. Among those who have not found an answer to the question of what the award is for is the famous trainer Edgard Zapashny, who spoke on this topic in his Instagram:
“When you and your colleagues work like horses for years and to some extent in order to someday stand in front of the President and, proud of yourself and your work done, receive a worthy reward, then at this time such “singers” suddenly receive the Order, and even the second degree. I admit that I don’t want to work less after this, but I don’t want your name to ever be on par with such a “singer”!<…>Friends, there are things called overkill, and this is exactly the case!”
“He said it correctly!”, “I agree with Zapashny and all those who agree with him!” - users of social networks support the famous trainer and are perplexed “for what merit Nelson received the award.”
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Among those who respect the singer’s work, there were also those who could not understand “what the medal was for.”
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Some users took the news about Irina Nelson’s award as a joke and were upset when they learned the opposite, noting that such an award reduces the status of the medal itself.
Others regarded the whole story as a PR stunt.
Among the commentators there are those who thought that negative reaction most with ordinary envy, and Zapashny was advised to look at his work activity.
Information about the awarding of the participant was widely circulated on the Russian Internet. music group Reflex of Irina Nelson with the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree. The ceremony took place on July 7 in the Catherine Hall of the Kremlin. According to official data, the singer received such a high award “for her services to the development of culture.”
Since the activities of the Reflex group and Irina Nelson in lately not heard, then the interested public turned to the Internet in order to find out, in fact, for what achievements such laurels? And the first photos that the search engine offers by the name of this singer are pictures from various erotic photo shoots. Although most of the photographs were taken back in 2003, the very fact of awarding the pop singer, who had lost all shame and conscience, caused, to put it mildly, indignation, which resulted in numerous publications on the Internet, which naturally received hundreds and thousands of angry comments.
When the information became widely publicized, public figures began to voice their indignation. In particular, Edgard Zapashny called the presentation of the order to Irina “overkill” and noted that now he does not want to strive for a state award so that the name does not stand on the same level as the singer. The event was also commented on by the hero of Russia, Major General Gennady Fomenko.
To smooth out the wave of discontent, the official Russian media, in particular the Russia 24 TV channel, published stories about how wonderful Irina Nelson is - she popularizes vegetarianism and yoga, how she works hard on the “cultural front,” and how they insult her, they say, are completely undeserved.
In turn, popular TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, trying to justify Nelson, in his Jesuitical manner even agreed to the point that, according to him, those who were dissatisfied with the singer’s award were supposedly simply jealous of her.
Of course, the Russia 24 TV channel is also engaged in cheap manipulations, trying to shield one of the representatives of their liberal crowd. The reason for the wave of discontent was not envy at all, but the understanding that simple fact what voluntary participation in an erotic photo shoot demonstrates highest degree moral decline of the individual, and for this reason in a normal society should serve as a stigma that does not allow such a person to participate in any official field of activity in the future. And presenting state awards to morally degraded people contributes to discrediting both the insignia themselves and statehood in general.
However, in life, any person can improve and become better over time, so in this review we suggest analyzing contemporary creativity singer Nelson. Perhaps over the past 15 years the situation has changed, and today Irina broadcasts mass audience already completely different values, of a higher order. For analysis we will take 5 latest clips this singer, recorded as part of the same musical group Reflex and included in the group’s new studio album, called “Grown Up Girls.”
As you can see, in all five videos, the last of which was released a month before the award ceremony, there are numerous images of girls in lingerie, erotic provocative movements, BDSM-style costumes and other vulgarity. If you evaluate the textual content of the songs of the Reflex group, then it has not changed since its creation musical group and in 90 percent of cases it comes down to a chaotic stream of thoughts on the topic of unhappy relationships and suffering due to the absence of a loved one, like:
"After you"
I don't know how I will live without you.
After all, it doesn’t matter – I won’t forget anything.
And I understand: I can’t live without you -
I can’t and I won’t!"Waterfall"
And I, if I touch your hair, will become excited, like a bird.
And I get excited; and I’m so scared - but I’ll forget myself and fall asleep.
And everything is as always! And I’m not saying goodbye, I’ll come for you again.
And so on... Those who wish can familiarize themselves with the other lyrics of the latest album of the Reflex group, perhaps someone will even see “high poetry” in them. But if we call a spade a spade, then, in our opinion, this is a continuous stream of stupidity and instinctive urges, perceiving which you can program yourself only for an unhappy relationship with your loved one.
Thus, the modern contribution of singer Irina Nelson to popular culture comes down to promoting stupidity, vulgarity and perversion, and most importantly, what it was remembered for by a wide audience at a time when the Reflex group was popular was its erotic photo shoots.
Presentation of the medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland” to the singer serves a shining example degradation of the cultural, in quotes, “elite” of Russia, as well as an indicator of the extremely low level of officials of the Presidential Administration. The attempts of the central Russian media to justify the singer look pathetic and ridiculous, spread the truth!