“Do not try to please someone”: Meladze responded to calls to deprive him of citizenship
Singer Valeriy Meladze is revealed for the first time since the video was posted, to which he refers to Ukraine’s support. According to the description of the video in social networks, the actor responded to the Ukrainian slogan during a concert in Dubai. At the same time, Meladze’s words are not heard on the video, because at that moment he removed the microphone from his mouth.
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The singer did not comment on the video on the video, but published a post in Telegram, which admitted that for 10 months he has been living “with a feeling of heaviness and grief.” “It just so happened that the people I love live in conflict, people die hotly. I CANNOT AND DO NOT WANT TO HATE ANYONE, AND DO NOT TRY TO PLEASE ANYONE. I dream only that antagonism is widespread, and harmony has been established between close peoples. And for this I am ready to give all my strength, ”wrote Meladze (punctuation and spelling preserved).
After the publication of a video from a concert in Dubai of the leader of A Just Russia – For Truth, Sergei Mironov invitation deprive Meladze of all titles in Russia. “His personality traits. A truly Russian artist cannot and should not behave like this. He sits on two chairs, “kills” from all sides. It’s time to make a decision,” the deputy noted.
Later, a member of the Federation Council from the Orenburg region Elena Afanasyeva in her Telegram channel pay revoke Russian citizenship. “At a time when citizens are dying for the Russian people, defending Russian territories, some of ours allow themselves to zigzag along with the Ukrainian Nazis. It is unacceptable. If Meladze had been an honest man, which I doubt, he himself would have renounced Russian citizenship, ”the senator said.
Meladze has the title of Honored Artist of Russia and People’s Artist of the Chechen Republic. After the start of the Russian “military special operation” * in Ukraine, he issued a statement condemning the actions of the government. After that, the artist’s concerts in Russia, scheduled for March 2022, were canceled.
*According to the requirements of Roskomnadzor, when producing materials for use in production in Ukraine, all Russian media are required to use materials only from conventional sources of the Russian Federation. We cannot publish materials during which an operation called “attack”, “invasion” or “declaration of war” is carried out, unless it is a direct quote (Article 57 of the Federal Law on Mass Media). In case of violation of the requirements, the media may be fined 5 million rubles, and the blocking of the publication may also be continued.