"Liapis Trubetskoy" on crossed-out names on posters: This is absurd...

Posters of the Russian music festival "Cubana", which is planned to take place in Russia on July 29-31, appeared in Homel streets. Among the enlisted head-liners which will participate in the festival, there are the bands "Liapis Trubetskoy" and "Tarakany". However, the names of these bands were crossed out by a black marker! Let us remind you, both bands are in the so-called 'black list" of artists and culture activists, whose concerts were cancelled and songs prohibited for rotation at radio-stations and TV-channels. According to the director of "Liapis Trubetskoy" Yauhen Kalmykou, this should have been expected as the name of the band is absent in other Belarusian advertisements of the festival. 

Yauhen Kalmykou: "Someone wants to be extra-safe... But this is absurd, as we are head-liners at "Cubana" festival. For example, we are in the promo-videos in Moscow, while there's no mentioning of us in radio commercials played in our native Minsk. This is just somebody's wish to be extra safe, and it is very sad to speak on this".

Representatives of the agency which distributed posters in Homel confirmed that the names of the bands had really been crossed out. However, they told that the censored posters arrived from Minsk.

"The client sent us such posters. We do not print them. The client passed them looking like this, and we distributed them like this. We do not produce posters, we just distribute them", – the agency's employee says.

Employees of the company "Plombir TV", which produced and distributed posters in Belarus, also said they had crossed out nothing and had not even heard about this. Thus, it turns out that someone has been crossing out the "blacklisted" bands on the way from Minsk to Homel. However, it rained in Homel closer to the evening and the rain washed off the black ink.