Russia ban for Belarusian punk band?
MP Roman Khudyakov from Liberal Democratic Party tells Russia's Prosecutor General to ban the Belarusian band Lyapis Trubetskoy in Russia.
The parliamentarian is asking the office of Prosecutor General to check the statements made by the band’s frontman Sergey Mikhalok at a concert in the Russian city of Izhevsk. Mikhalok was reported to be shouting out Glory to Ukraine! and calling those disconent in the crowd ‘imperial imbeciles’. The band should be forbidden to gig in Russia, Khudyakov suggests.
He asked to punish Sergey Mikhalok for that and for swearing in a public place. “Let the Prosecutor General's Office find out what his citizenship is. He may become a persona non grata in Russia,” Izvestiya quotes the MP as saying.
Khudyakov called Mikhalok a Maidan and Belarusian opposition supporter and drew attention to the fact that the Belarusian citizen lived in Moscow and ‘was hiding from the inquiry ordered by Prosecutor General of Belarus.
The band has toured across Russia, including Moscow and St Petersburg, the Russian newspaper notes.
Earlier in March, member of Saint Petersburg legislative assembly Vitali Milonov proposed to ban Lyapis Trubetskoy members from entering Russia over their public support to Maidan protesters in Kiev. The initiative was not supported back then but nobody knows what may happen now.
No insulting statements were made at the concert in Izhevsk, the band’s producer Yauhen Kalmykou told Izvestiya. “The image of an enemy is deliberately being created,” he says. He also reminded that the band officially announced the end of career from September 1, 2014.
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