MOSCOW, March 6, Yulia Zachetova. Regular performances and concerts, fans, success — all this is in the past for those who left the country in pursuit of political hype. Now — uncertainty about career and life prospects, homesickness. How those who left live — in the material .
Aground
The noise from a loud knock on the door continues to echo: concerts abroad are being disrupted every now and then.
So, the misadventures of the group » Bi-2″ did not end in Thailand, where they were arrested for working without permission from the authorities. The show in Dubai in February was canceled, and then the performances in Kemer, Turkey, scheduled for the end of April.
Things are not going well for the Ukrainian singer Vera Brezhneva, who made a career in Russia: her concert in Kyrgyzstan did not take place in February. Previously, Bi-2 and Morgenstern* were not allowed on stage there.
Fear has big eyes
Blogger Danya Milokhin admitted that he is afraid of being drafted into the Russian army. In Dubai, the financial situation of the formerly popular TikToker has been shaken, but he remains optimistic.
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"I want peace. And in order to be popular in the world, you need to be in the world. That is, where I am, that’s where I’ll be useful,” he argues.
At the same time, he does not hide the fact that he misses his homeland, and would like to freely come and perform here with new artists.
Chulpan Khamatova has been playing random roles on stage in Latvia for two years now, where she purchased housing even before emigrating.
In a recent interview, the actress said that she does not have the strength to rebuild her career. According to her, now she is not in a position to choose roles, as it was in her homeland, and she will still have to overcome herself and “write some letter somewhere.”
At the same time, Khamatova considers it possible to nominate the conditions under which she is ready to return to Russia: to express dissatisfaction with politics without fear for herself.
These fears are, apparently, as far-fetched as the reasons why rapper Morgenstern* does not return from Dubai.
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“There are no restrictions on entry into our country for foreign agents. The fact that this person does not come to Russia is probably his personal choice,” notes the head of the Safe Internet League, Ekaterina Mizulina.
Accustomed to wasting money in his homeland, the rapper has become more thrifty in a foreign land. He recently appealed his third fine of 50 thousand rubles, which he was given for not marking a foreign agent in the content.
International search
The writer Boris Akunin (Georgi Chkhartishvili)** has been living abroad for about ten years.
In February, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested him in absentia for calls for terrorism and fake news about the Russian Armed Forces, put him on the international wanted list. It also became known that as part of a criminal case, the accounts of Akunin’s wife** in the amount of about six million rubles were seized. According to the investigation, this money is the joint income of the spouses and was used to commit crimes.
* An individual performing the functions of a foreign agent.
** An individual performing the functions of a foreign agent in Russia is included in the list of terrorists and extremists.