Aspiring 29-year-old Russian singer Oksana Yakovleva, known under the alias Yaxana, was detained by the highway police several days after she filmed a music video in the middle of Moscow’s busy motorway, which stirred up netizens in Russia.
According to the singer’s lawyer, the judge ruled that she pay a fine of 20,000 rubles, which is the equivalent of $300. The singer’s representative also claimed that she would like to apologize for the inconvenience she might have caused.
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The lawyer also refuted media reports about the hours-long traffics jam, that even tied up emergency vehicles. According to him, the whole process took just 3 minutes. He assured Sputnik that it was totally spontaneous. The singer and her friends were on their way to the filming site when it seemed to them that their cars accidentally scratched. The group stopped, the girls got out of the cars to dance, while the cameraman filmed them.