Stas Peha denied entry to Ukraine for the “support of the occupation of the Crimea” – RBC

The singer Stas Peha. Archival photo

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The fact that the singer Stas Peha refused permission to enter the Ukraine, according to the website of the Odessa regional administration .

According to the report, Border Service and the SBU denied entry to the singer on the recommendation of the Odessa Administration. This was “because of its support for the occupation of the Crimea and the rabid pro-Putin propaganda».

According to RIA Novosti, on Sunday, August 9, was scheduled concert Piekha in a club in Odessa.

«Ukraine welcomes the visit of Russian decent actors, musicians, tourists, investors, but to all those who support the occupation regime, the entry into our territory is closed,” – said the regional administration.

At the end of July, the regional governor, Former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has achieved that in the Odessa Club Ibiza canceled a concert of Russian rapper Timati. Saakashvili hinted the club, it is not necessary to invite singers, “which completely justifies Russian aggression».

On the eve of Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture has published a list of 14 Russian artists, who “endanger national security”, reports 112.ua. The list includes Oleg Gazmanov, Iosif Kobzon, Sergey Bezrukov, Mikhail Boyarsky, Nikolai Rastorguev, Ivan Okhlobystin, Michael Porechenkov, Grigory Leps, Gerard Depardieu, Vladimir Kucherenko, Yegor Kholmogorov Mikhail Khazin, Valery and Joseph Prigogine Perfilova. The ministry said that the list will grow.

Prior to that, the Ministry has made a whitelist Russian cultural figures who supported territorial integrity of Ukraine. It includes musicians Zemfira, Andrei Makarevich, Yuri Shevchuk, Leah Akhedzhakova actors, Oleg Basilashvili, Valentin Gaft Andrei soft, Sergei Jurassic, Natalia Fateev Mikhail Efremov. Participants in the white list were also poet Andrei Orlov (Orlusha), TV host Tatyana Lazareva, Michael Schatz, director Eldar Ryazanov, writers Boris Akunin, Lev Rubinstein, satirists Zhvanetski and Viktor Shenderovich, a poet and composer Julius Kim and journalist Emma Abaidullina.

In July, at a concert in Tbilisi Zemfira during one song waving a Ukrainian flag, which caused a scandal. The leader of the “Time Machine” Andrei Makarevich in July, together with the Ukrainian group “Haydamaky” and the Polish performer Maciej Malenchukom recorded the song “Tіlki zalishit you zhivim amour” (“Just make love stay alive”), and before that the musician was accused of being too sympathetic to Ukraine.