In Nizhny Novgorod, an Audi Q7 car carrying Zakhar Prilepin exploded, killing the driver and injuring the writer. This is reported by the telegram channels «112» and BRIEF without indicating sources. The interlocutor in the emergency services confirmed the information to TASS.
RBC, citing a source close to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, writes that Prilepin was seriously wounded.
After the start of the war in Ukraine, Zakhar Prilepin became the initiator of the Group for the Investigation of Anti-Russian Actions (GRAD) in the field of culture. The GRAD included not only senators and deputies from various parties, but also artists. They compiled a list of «agents», which included Ivan Urgant, the Bi-2 group and Alexander Molochnikov.
In addition, due to complaints from supporters of the writer, director Molochnikov was suspended from participating in the operas Francesca da Rimini «and» Florentine tragedy «on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater.