1. Vira Viktorivna Halushka, better known by her stage name Vera Brezhneva, is a Ukrainian singer, television presenter and actress.
21 Facts About Vera Brezhneva
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Vera Brezhneva performed several times at the Laima Rendezvous music festival in Jurmala, Latvia.
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Vera Brezhneva was born on 3 February 1982 in Dniprodzerzhynsk, in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.
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Vera Brezhneva has three sisters; one older sister named Halyna, and younger twins Nastya and Vika.
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Vera Brezhneva bought a flat for her parents in Boryspil, a town close to Kyiv.
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The father of Brezhneva's daughter, Sonia, is Vitaliy Voychenko, to whom Brezhneva was married for a few years.
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Vera Brezhneva earned a degree by correspondence from the faculty of economics of the Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Railway Engineering.
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In 2002, Vera Brezhneva was invited to a casting organised to find a girl to replace Alena Vinnitskaya in the group Nu Virgos, in which she succeeded.
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In July 2007, Vera Brezhneva decided to take a break from the band.
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Vera Brezhneva was then replaced in the group by Tatiana Kotova.
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In May 2008, Vera Brezhneva premiered her first single called "Ya ne igrayu".
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Vera Brezhneva's sixth single "Lepestkami slyoz" was a duet with Dan Balan.
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In early 2011, Vera Brezhneva premiered her new single "Realnaya zhizn", and the single "Sexy Bambina" at the end of that year.
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Vera Brezhneva continued her careers in Russia after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014.
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Vera Brezhneva divorced Konstantin Meladze, to whom she had been married since 2015.
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Vera Brezhneva moved to Riga, Latvia; Brezhneva returned to Ukraine a couple of times during the war.
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Vera Brezhneva started to release her first songs in the Ukrainian language; in October 2022 and in September 2023.
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Vera Brezhneva played Katya in the film Love in the Big City in 2009, and its two sequels in 2010 and 2013.
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Vera Brezhneva had a major part playing as herself in Yolki and Yolki 2, and appeared in Jungle.
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Vera Brezhneva appeared in the second season of Russian ice show contest Ice Age.
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Vera Brezhneva received the title "Woman of the Year" from Glamour Russia in 2010.