Alexei Kortnev was called a “foreign agent” and was not allowed to speak at the Udmurt Museum

The leader of the “Accident” group, Alexei Kortnev, was not allowed to perform in the Udmurt city of Votkinsk at the “Uchuchudu Music Weekend” project. It is reported by RBC with reference to the organizer of the event, Alexander Smakotin.

Uchuchudu Music Weekend is a creative weekend during which teenagers record a music release together with professional musicians. The event with Kortnev was to be held on April 9 at the Tchaikovsky Museum in Votkinsk.

“At some point, the director of the museum called us and said that she was called by the competent authorities and informed that Alexei Kortnev was a “foreign agent” and events with his participation should not take place on the site of the house-museum,” Smakotin said. – That he is not a foreign agent, that we have agreements – nothing worked. We were unilaterally denied.”

This is not the first time that problems with holding Kortnev’s events have arisen. Last summer, the musician said that they tried to disrupt the concert of “Accident” in Nizhny Novgorod. The activists blocked the entrance to the site, but the performance still took place: the audience was led through the back door.

Kortnev repeatedly condemned the actions of the Russian authorities, and after the start of the military operation in Ukraine, he spoke out against the hostilities.

In February of this year, Kortnev was detained by the police in Novosibirsk. In the “Accident” group on VKontakte, it was reported that the duet of Kortnev and Dmitry Chuvelev could not finish the concert in Akademgorodok for reasons beyond the control of the team. Due to the alleged smoke in the adjacent premises of the Russian Post office, the electricity was turned off in the club, and police and firemen arrived. Spectators and artists left, and Kortnev and Chuvelev were later summoned to the police to clarify the circumstances of the incident.