Nuclear risk ‘increasing rapidly’ after explosion at dam, Kiev says

by time news

2023-06-06 09:51:55

7:55 a.m .: Between exile and “patriotic” fervor, Russian singers divided by the conflict in Ukraine

Vladimir Kotliarov, the leader of the Russian punk band “Pornofily”, left Russia ten days after the start of the offensive against Ukraine, “disgusted”. The singer Shaman, on the contrary, stayed and filled the room with his patriotic lyrics. Like these two singers, this conflict has fractured the Russian musical world, with artists who go into exile and denounce the Kremlin’s policies on stage, while others, on the contrary, sing to the glory of the army.

Vladimir Kotliarov, from Dubna, a small town north of Moscow, recalls being “disgusted by the society which barely reacted” after Vladimir Putin’s decision to send Russian troops to Ukraine in February 2022 “I understood that I would find it difficult to live among such indifferent people,” he said, on the sidelines of a mid-May concert of his group in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

The singer, who now lives in Georgia, in Tbilisi, says that the conflict plunged him into “a black hole, a void”: “I couldn’t believe it, resign myself. Months passed, I lived in expectation but nothing changed, it was horrible. His group, which was already known for its texts sharply criticizing the authorities in Russia, took a stand against the offensive in Ukraine and multiplied the concerts of “charity” in favor of Ukrainian refugees.

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