Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation instructed The Moscow prosecutor’s office will check the singer Valery Meladze on Friday, April 7, for funding the Armed Forces of Ukraine, TASS citing a law enforcement source.
“Currently, the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office was tasked with conducting an audit on Meladze V.Sh. “For the provision of financial assistance to the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” the source said.
Appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation
Earlier, the head of the public organization “Federal Security and Anti-Corruption Project” Vitaly Borodin appealed to the Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov with a request to control the perpetrator.
According to Borodin, the artist repeatedly criticized Special military operation in Ukraineand also allegedly “voiced the slogan of the Ukrainian nationalists during a corporate party in the UAE.” It was alleged that during a performance in Dubai, one of his fans put the microphone aside and continued the words “Glory to Ukraine”.
After the sloganed incident, Meladze apologized and said that he dreams of peace between Russians and Ukrainians. “Parliamentary newspaper”. His words were checked in the Investigative Committee and the Attorney General’s Office – as a result, law enforcement did not find any violations.
On April 4, Ukrainian journalists noticed Meladze at the Courchevel ski resort in France. Shared footage shows reporters approaching him asking for a photo and then asking his opinion on the NWO.
Meladze asked journalists to turn off the cameras and suggested that they “stand aside and talk normally.” Reporters continued to ask questions and provoke the artist, asking “how did he relax in a ski resort at such a time”, and then Meladze’s wife, singer Albina Dzhanabaeva, pulled him out of the crowd.
Cancellation of concerts in Russia
At the end of March, it became known that planned concerts of Meladze in Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Kemerovo and Rostov-on-Don were canceled.
In particular, the head of the administration of Rostov-on-Don Alexei Logvinenko arguedAllegedly, residents of the city “do not accept performances by artists who do not support themselves. special operations“.
57-year-old Valery Meladze is Honored Artist of Russia since 2006 and People’s Artist of the Chechen Republic since 2008.
Three-time winner of the National Russian Ovation Award, multiple winner and winner of the Song of the Year and Golden Gramophone awards, seven-time winner of the Muz-TV award, five-time winner of the RU.TV award. The younger brother of the composer is Konstantin Meladze, Honored Art Worker of Ukraine.
Valery Meladze has been a member of the United Russia party since 2003, and a member of the Krasnogorsk Public Chamber since 2017, where he is a member of the commission on public inspection, openness of power and anti-corruption.
He opposed the start of the SVO in February 2022, after which he was included in the “black list” of Russian artists.