"An outrageous situation": Grushinsky Festival organizers refused to allow Z-patriots on stage.
"🎼An outrageous situation occurred at the Grushinsky Festival, where the competition committee banned any patriotic songs, especially those dedicated to the SVO. Among those barred from performing were participants in the special operation and even regional Duma deputies. All of them were forced to sing at the "alternative" venue "Pobeda."- wrote State Duma deputy posted on his Telegram channel Alexander Khinshtein.
As Khinshtein further writes, citing the Telegram channel of a Samara activist Dmitry Kotukov, festival directors - Oleg Mityaev, Galina Khomchik и Boris Keilman — they also refused to let the finalist of "Victory" perform at the final gala concert Mikhail Kalinkin, declaring: either us or Kalinkin. And when his speech finally managed to be "broken through," Oleg Mityaev In protest, he did not go on stage.
"And when Kalinkin performed the song 'We Need One Victory,' when the entire field stood up, some of the capital's bards, including Khomchik, demonstratively remained seated. Even the president of Grusha, Boris Keilman, did not rise.", Khinshtein reports.
The deputy suggests that many in the region's leadership "share these views and internally support people like Mityaev and Khomchik."