The concert of the veteran Russian rocker Yuri Shevchukscheduled for June 10 in Moscow, he was postponed for security reasons after his call don’t kiss “the president’s ass”Vladimir Putin.

“Unfortunately, the organizers of this great concert have not received the authorization from the Moscow regional security department,” said Shevchuk himself in a video posted on the social network Vkontakte.

Shevchuk, leader of the DDT group, complained that “rock continues to be dangerous for many” and challenged his followers to guess “for whom?”.

“Therefore, we postpone the concert until next year. Hurray!“, he added, with all the irony in the world. In mid-May, Shevchuk, 65, denounced the Russian military campaign in Ukraine during a concert in Ufa, a city in the Urals.

“The country is not the president’s ass to lick”

“The country, friends, is not the president’s ass to be licked and kissed all the time. The homeland is the grandmother who lives in poverty and sells potatoes at the station. than the homeland“he said, words that were acclaimed by the public.

Also, Yuri Shevchuk added: “Now they kill people in Ukraine. For what? Our kids are dying there. Once again the young people of Russia and Ukraine die, the elderly, women and children die for the sake of certain Napoleonic plans of our ‘Caesar’ on duty“.

For this the Russian authorities have opened an administrative procedure against the musician, who will have to appear in court in St. Petersburg.

Last April, authorities canceled a DDT concert in the Siberian city of Tyumen.a move the rocker later attributed to the group’s refusal to play in a room decorated with a huge letter “Z”, used as a symbol by Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.

“We stopped performing there. We asked to move the concert to another room, but they didn’t give it to us,” said Yuri Shevchuk at the time.

Though the open case is administrative, therefore it can only be sanctioned with a pecuniary sanction, the possibility of it being reclassified as a penalty is not excluded. If so, he could be framed in the offense of discrediting the Army with certain aggravating circumstances and may be punished with up to 15 years of imprisonment.

Since the start of the “special military operation” in Ukraine, the authorities have opened an unspecified number of criminal cases for alleged attacks on the prestige of the Russian army. Source: With information from EFE.

ACE