19 May 2006 – Philippine Ambassador to Moscow Ernesto V. Llamas reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that the Philippine Madrigal Singers, currently on tour in Moscow, performed live on Russian radio on 14 May 2006 for a full concert of two hours as part of an ongoing international music festival organized by the premier state-run Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music. The 22-member Madz, performing their third straight concert in as many days, presented a panoply of 17 Filipino songs in a two-hour program entitled The Philippines Through Music at the 5th Studio at Malaya Nikitskaya of the government-owned Radio Kultura 91.6 FM station.