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ASTANA, June 10 Representative of showman Maxim Galkin* in Kazakhstan Alexey Puchkov announces problems with organizing a comedian concert in Alma-Ata, which is scheduled for 6-7 October of this year.
“We sent several letters to the akimat (mayor's office — ed.) and to the Palace of the Republic: a notice of booking a date, and also requested an agreement that we must conclude for a concert,” said the producer.
After that, according to him, the organizers of the show began selling tickets. However, he later learned from the press that ticket sales were illegal. Thus, the information portal zakon.kz cites the words of the director of the state enterprise «Almaty Auendery» Bakytzhan Sadykov, who is in charge of the Palace of the Republic. He stated that «the sale of tickets without an agreement with a concert venue, in this case the Palace of the Republic, can be regarded as fraud and a real deception of the audience.»
The Caravan media portal wrote that «information about the start of sales of tickets for Galkin's performance appeared on the Internet on an independent resource.» «The platform has nothing to do with the Palace of the Republic in Almaty. The site management appealed to the prosecutor's office for further proceedings. Bakytzhan Sadykov stressed that the organizers of the concert are fully responsible for deceiving the audience,» the material says.
Puchkov explained that the contract for the concert had not yet been concluded. «In addition, representatives of the site refer to the fact that they have booked our dates for another artist,» Puchkov explained.
The agency has not yet been able to get a comment from the mayor's office of Alma-Ata and the Palace of the Republic on this issue.
Meanwhile, according to the producer, the authorities of Astana agreed to hold a comedian's concert on October 8.
The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included Galkin* in the register of foreign agents in mid-September last year. The document indicated that the country of financing of Galkin * is Ukraine, and also mentioned the «implementation of political activities.» Galkin* himself, together with his wife Alla Pugacheva, now lives in Israel.
Earlier in June, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow refused to remove the status of a foreign agent from showman Maxim Galkin*.
* An individual acting as a foreign agent in Russia.