Pet Shop Boys line up for Red Square revellers

Tens of thousands of fans gathered at a venue just off Red Square today to listen to the Pet Shop Boys and Russian rock bands perform in Moscow’s Live 8 concert to raise awareness of African poverty.

Russian state-run television, which was to broadcast the concert, showed thousands of people under overcast skies jammed into a square in the shadows of the Kremlin as rock group Moralnyi Codex kicked off the show.