Modern chanson performers include the band Lesopoval, Spartak Arutyunyan and Belomorkanal Band, Boka (Russian-Armenian Chanson), Ivan Kuchin, Butyrka, Aleksandr Novikov, Willi Tokarev, Mikhail Shufutinsky, Lubov' Uspenskaya, and Mikhail Krug (murdered in 2002 at his villa in Tver).
