Parodist and TV presenter Maxim Galkinwhich has spoken out against the war in Ukraine, is included of Russia in the register of natural persons performing the functions of foreign agent.
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A Kremlin representative announced in early September that Galkin was “clearly out of step” with other Russian citizens.
Galkin is out of Russia. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in late February, he was in Israel, where he harshly criticized the war in his concerts of him. The artist also performed ASVin Latvia and Poland.
Galkin commented on Buch’s mass killings on social networks and said there can be no justification for the war.
He was subsequently denied airtime on Russian television. The mass media reported that the reason for this was directly Galkin’s anti-war statements and that he had already lost advertising contracts in the early days of the war.
In September, it became known that Galkin’s wife Alla Pugacheva returned to Russia. He did not make public statements about the war, but he criticized the hate stirrers on social networks. The singer was present on September 3 Soviet Union at the funeral of President Mikhail Gorbachev, but later posted on social media that Gorbachev “rejected violence as a means of politics and to maintain his power.”
of Russia Ministry of Justiceadding to the register of natural persons – “foreign agents”, said that Galkin is engaged in political activity, receives funding or other assistance from Ukrainian. Last week, journalists Jūlija Latīnina and Michael Naki, as well as historian and teacher Tamara Eidelmane, were entered in the register with the same wording.
representative of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov On September 4, Galkin was harshly criticized when reporters asked Peskov about his attitude towards artists who left Russia after the war began but are now returning. One such artist is Pugacheva.
“There are, of course, those who have literally contaminated themselves with utterly indecent and unacceptable claims. They are, let’s say, the ones we clearly disagree with. And there are others,” Peskov said. “I have not heard any statements from Anna Pugacheva. [Viņas] the spouse made very bad statements, which I read myself, “Peskov said, summing up that Galkin is” clearly out of step “with the rest of the Russian citizens.
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