The leader of the rock group «Sansara» Alexander Gagarin on his page in «VKontakte» said that the performance scheduled for August 10 would not take place at the «Yeltsin Center».
«On the reasons for the cancellation of the concert in Ekb (the first in 26 years) I will tell in detail, but later. I will only note that the official. there was no ban on holding the event,” Gagarin stressed.
As Radio Liberty noted, Yekaterina Mizulina, head of the Safe Internet League, was indignant at the planned Samsara concert at the Yeltsin Center yesterday, whose musicians spoke out against the war.
According to Mizulina, she received complaints from «outraged citizens», she herself said that she «shares their indignation».
Including Mizulina was approached by supporters of the pro-war movement «Brotherhood of Academicians», who called for preparations for the «battle for the new emperor of a united and indivisible Russia.» They wrote that «Samsara» sings of «LGBT values, which is forbidden in our God-saved country.»