Very politically engaged, Danila Poperechny defends LGBT rights and regularly opposes the Kremlin. He fled Russia in February 2022 after the start of the war in Ukraine. Wiki Commons
Danila Poperechny was cut “with each joke touching near or farto war during a performance in Uzbekistan. “Like at home”, joked the Russian comedian.
A famous Russian comedian, opposed to the war in Ukraine, has been censored by the authorities of Uzbekistan, an authoritarian state in Central Asia, for having spoken about Russia during one of his shows in Tashkent, the Uzbek capital , we learned on Friday. Danila Poperechny, who has over 1.6 million Instagram followers and opposes Russia’s war in Ukraine.
“His microphone was cut fifteen times during the show because Danila Poperechny talked about politics and said things that could not be said“said the administrator of the concert hall. According to her, the artist did not respect the production contract prohibiting talking about politics.
“The microphones have been disabled by the concert organizers“, continued the administrator, refusing to detail the censored moments and calling to refer to the Instagram page of Danila Poperechny. The comedian had indicated on Wednesday that he had his “microphone cut at each joke touching directly or indirectly on events in the world“.
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“I felt like home”
During the show on Tuesday,they even cut a moment from the trailer where there was just the word Russia“, he continues. According to him, “50 minutes of the show was censored“. “I felt like home“, he quipped, while Russia severely punishes any criticism of its army or its offensive.
The Uzbek Interior Ministry and Tashkent police were not immediately available. Opposed to the invasion of Ukraine launched on February 24, 2022, the comedian left Russia. In recent months, hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens have fled Vladimir Putin’s military mobilization and repression in Russia to the former Soviet republics of Central Asia.