From January to March 2004, STS in Russia aired Podnebesnaya, a thirteen-episode reality show/documentary which chronicled the group recording their second album with producer Ivan Shapovalov. The girls recorded a few songs, some of which were used for their second album. Only a few months after the show aired, Katina and Volkova left Shapovalov, claiming the quality of the music being produced was too low, and that he was only interested in creating scandals. Volkova stated, "He [Ivan] spends his time thinking up scandals instead "helena mattson" nude of planning our artistic work. I'm sure our fans would rather hear new songs and new albums than new scandals."^[9]

In 2002, vitaa photos SEX t.A.T.u. released their debut English album, 200Km/h in the Wrong Lane. It featured the hits^[vague] All The Things She Said and Not Gonna Get Us.

On May 17, 2007, t.A.T.u. issued a statement directed to their gay fans: "When t.A.T.u.'s second album came out, many of our fans of alternative sexual orientation thought that we lied and betrayed them. This is not true! We’ve never done that and we’ve always advocated love without boundaries."^[11] On May 26, they flew out to Moscow to take part in the Moscow Gay "helena mattson" nude Pride demonstration.^[12]

On May 24, 2003, vitaa photos SEX t.A.T.u. represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, where they placed third.^[7] Russian television station Channel One protested the Eurovision results, but to no avail. PR director of Channel One said t.A.T.u. received "unlikely low points" from some countries.^[8]

On November 21, 2006, the region of the Komi Republic in Russia filed a lawsuit against t.A.T.u. over the album and song "Lyudi Invalidy". Leonid Vakuev, a human rights representative for the Komi Republic, cited words written in the booklet for the album, which said: "Disabled people [Lyudi Invalidy] do not know what it means to be a human being. They are fakes inside the human form. They do not live, but â€” Nina-Friederike Gnädig naked function". Katina said, "Of course, we meant moral invalids, people who do not have [a] soul and human feelings." When asked if they had anything against disabled people, she stated that she finds it offensive to refer to people by that term, and added, "We take pictures together and make sure they have priority seats [at concerts]."^[10]

On September 12, 2007 the group released Truth. It was the group's first release since leaving Universal. In late 2007, "Beliy Plaschik," the leading single from their upcoming album, Upravleniye Otbrosami, was released. The album's second single, "220," made its radio premiere in May 2008 and the music video was released on their official Youtube channel on June 5, 2008. Their Russian third album nue pics Upravleniye Otbrosami was due out in June 2008 and their English Waste Management is due out later on in the year. So far Yulia and Lena have performed live shows in Russia, Germany, France, Dubai, Italy, Egypt and California. They were due to fly out to America to perform at the Avalon Nightclub in Santa Clara, CA but due to Yulia's ill health they had to cancel. [1] Lena stated in a diary entry on their official website that Yulia was feeling better. [2]

On September 23, 2004, Volkova gave birth to Viktoria (Vika) Pavlovna Volkova, and she soon returned to the studio with Katina.