Yulia Volkova underwears

At the time of the "Hyperion-Plate"'s release, "Upravleniye Otbrosami" was scheduled to hit the stores in June 2008. The EP featured a poster which advertised that date, as well as a coupon redeemable for a discount on the album that expired on June 30, 2008. However, the release schedule abruptly stalled on June 5, 2008, when lesbian schoolgirls t.A.T.u.'s manager Boris Renski announced that Yulia Volkova was seriously ill.^[13] Volkova's illness forced the cancellation of a concert in Santa Clara, CA, and the singer was not seen in public until the wedding of producer Sergey Konov on July 5, 2008. The band returned to work in late August, when it was reported that t.A.T.u. would be the face of fashion designer Marc Jacobs's fall and winter campaigns in Russia.

Early in January 2002, the girls began recording their English album first in London, England and Germany then in the United States. In April, it was announced that Elena Kiper had left the group as co-producer, lena katina imagesize:large and that she was being replaced by Beata Andreeva, a former MTV VJ. Later that month, t.A.T.u. recorded the song and video for Prostye Dvizheniya ("Simple Motions"). The video was then released in May and showed, according to the girls, "How simple moves are always in our lives, like drinking water, reading a book," which is what Katina does during most of the video, or masturbating, which is what Volkova does in the video.

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 photos lene alexandra low, and that he was only interested in creating scandals. Volkova stated, "He [Ivan] spends his time thinking up scandals instead of planning our artistic work. I'm sure our fans would rather hear new songs and new albums than new scandals."^[9]