Lubyanka tour
cyprus-daily.news*(Lubyanka – FSB headquarter)
The imposition of sanctions and other restrictions in response to Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine has sharply reduced the ability of Russian artists to tour abroad. In Europe, they are despised and it is considered bad taste to attend their performances.
An exception is made only for those who have clearly, unequivocally, and unambiguously condemned Putin’s regime and the barbaric attack on Ukraine. There are only a few of them. The vast majority of Russian artists support the crimes of their country and its criminal regime.
Cyprus, unfortunately, treats artists from Russia very leniently and provides them with ample opportunities for touring. Here they make no distinction between those who openly support Russia’s criminal military aggression against Ukraine and those who oppose it.
Therefore, faced with restrictions that make it impossible for them to perform in other European countries, Russian artists have flocked to Cyprus in droves.
The number and frequency of performances by artists from the country of the eternal gulag (gulag–concentration camp system) is astounding. The entire population of Cyprus is about a million people. Of them one hundred and a little thousand Russian-speaking former Soviet and Russian citizens. But if you look at the sold out tickets website, it would seem that the entire population of the island watches and listens exclusively to Russian artists.
The density and frequency of performances by representatives of the terrorist country is extremely high. Against this background, announcements of Cypriot artists performing in Greek look like rare exotics.
Russian islanders want Russian culture in Cyprus very much. But they do not want to live in the
