Putin's administration barred Z-singer Tsyganova from holding a concert in occupied Luhansk
Russian Z-list singer Vika Tsyganova announced the cancellation of her concert in the temporarily occupied city of Luhansk one day before the performance. According to her, this may have been prompted by criticism of the so-called “patriotic” messaging app MAX.
The singer wrote about this on social media.
The official reason given for the cancellation was a ban on mass gatherings due to martial law. At the same time, according to the singer, other concerts in the city were not canceled.
Tsiganova noted that local authorities did not object to her performance, and the decision to cancel allegedly came “from the very top”—from the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Does Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin know that his subordinates have started banning patriotic concerts in Donbas?” she wrote.
Earlier, the singer publicly criticized the MAX messenger app, which is positioned in Russia as an alternative to Western platforms. Against this backdrop, the concert’s cancellation sparked a backlash and discussions about internal conflicts within the Russian information space.
As a reminder, the so-called “Supreme Court of the LPR” recently sentenced Polish citizen Krzysztof Flachek to 13 years in prison on charges of “mercenary activity.”
In the temporarily occupied city of Luhansk, a power substation that supplied electricity to a railway hub used for the delivery of Russian military cargo was put out of commission as a result of sabotage.
