Well, the cash has started flowing from the Presidential Administration onto the worldwide web. TV Rain was right with its scoop.
They tried Hitler first, and that didn’t work out too well. Now, apparently, they’re “influencing young audiences through their idols.”
I can just picture that meeting of pointless old fossils, with Kiriyenko saying: “Why don’t we bring in artists who matter to young people?! Let them record some songs that explain, in language young people can understand, that they shouldn’t meddle in politics and that going to rallies is a bad thing.”
And everyone’s like: “Y_es, yes, in language they understand. Young people! Performers! Maybe we should do something in a rap style? My kid listens to rap!_”
Decision made. Heard and resolved: allocate three suitcases of cash to hand over to the producers of trendy artists for the creation of anti-political songs.
The money was delivered (that part gets done quickly). Rapper Ptakha and former Leningrad frontwoman Alisa Vox have already been paid.
Well, what can I say? We’ve been defeated. The Kremlin has crushed us. Young people no longer support fighting corruption and definitely won’t be going to the June 12 rallies, which already involve 193 cities.
My new video is about our bitter defeat:
And there are three things we’re extremely curious about:
How much were the artists paid for this commissioned hit job?
Who else is going to end up on this disgraceful list?
How much did the Presidential Administration’s PR people skim off this scheme? In other words, what’s the difference between how much rapper Ptakha actually received in hand and how much is listed in the accounts under “paid to rapper Ptakha”?
That’s why we urge all journalists to dig into this interesting story and interview the artists and their producers.
And if anyone has this kind of information and the relevant documents, please write to us via Black Box. It is completely anonymous.
And if you don’t like the Kremlin spending taxpayers’ money on this talentless garbage, then we need your signature and your financial donation to keep the campaign going—we’re not rappers or Alisas, our only source of funding is you.
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