The court of Ufa (central Russia) found Ivan Shevchuk guilty“A public action aimed at discrediting the use of Russian armed forces”. The singer was fined 50,000 rubles (about 800 euros), according to the press service of the court.
On May 18, during a concert in Ufa, the 65-year-old rocker claimed that: “The motherland should not be the permanent butt-licker of the president.”. “Now people are being killed in Ukraine, why?” Our boys are dying in Ukraine, why??, he threw himself into the crowd. Yuri Chevchuk is sorry for that “Young people from Ukraine and Russia dying because of our Caesar’s Napoleonic plans.”
If Yuri Chevchuk was sentenced to a fine, then the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation provides for up to five years of imprisonment for such crimes in case of recidivism and aggravating circumstances.
The singer did not attend his audition on Tuesday due to the quarantine related to the coronavirus. However, he sent a written statement through his lawyer Alexander Peredruk, in which he emphasized: “I have always been against war, in any country and at any time.” “All problems and all difficulties of a political nature between countries and peoples must be resolved through diplomatic channels.”he insisted.
Yuri Chevchuk, the leader of the DDT rock group, very famous in the former USSR, has condemned Vladimir Putin’s policy for a long time. He notably arrested him during a televised meeting in 2010. He was also one of the leaders of a large-scale protest movement in Russia in 2011 and 2012, which was suppressed by the Kremlin. Before Putin’s time, Yuri Chevchuk stood out against the first war in Chechnya in 1994-1996.
He began his career in the 1980s, the last decade of the USSR, gaining popularity in this crisis-ridden empire with his anti-establishment songs. When the USSR collapsed in 1991, Chevchuk was already a figure in Russian rock.
Source: Le Figaro
