Yuriy Shevchuk was found guilty of "discrediting the Russian army"

The reason for the artist's judicial persecution was his anti -war statements made during the DDT concert in Ufa. The Soviet Court of Ufa found Yuri Shevchuk guilty of "discrediting the Russian army". The chairman of the human rights organization "Agora" Pavel Chikov reported that he was fined for 50 thousand rubles. Shevchuk was not present at the court session, but before the decision, his lawyer Alexander Prorriv has announced the position of his client in the case.

"I, Yuriy Shevchuk, was always against wars, in any country and at any time. Opinct the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Abkhazia, Georgia, Ossetia, Karabas, in Iraq, etc. I am also against a war that lasts eight years in the Donbass and its present (so is officially called Russia's war against Ukraine). " Pavel Chikov also specified that earlier the linguist and psychologist were not found in the speech of the leader of the DDT band at a concert in Ufa in May of any discredit.

The artist's lawyer stated that he intends to challenge the court's decision. The court did not tell what the words of Yuri Shevchuk became the basis for his prosecution. During the May concert, Shevchuk addressed up to 10 thousand spectators. "People are killing in Ukraine now. Why? Our guys are killed there.

Why? What are the goals, what are the goals again? Again the youth of Russia and Ukraine die, old, women and children die for the sake of any Napoleonic plans for our regular Caesar Friends, is not a*President, who needs to be mousteless all the time, kissing. The Motherland is a Grandmother-Beebrach at the station that sells potatoes. This is home to home! " The artist said from the stage, assuring that his band is against the war.