An interesting interview by Yury Dud (a well-known Russian journalist and interviewer) with Vladi from Kasta (a Russian rap group) — take a look. They talk quite a bit about politics and, in particular, discuss Vladi’s performance in support of me at a concert during the mayoral campaign.
People still regularly ask me: surely it can’t be true that everyone really performed for free. Dud asks about that too.
It really was exactly as Vladi says. The fees were 0 rubles, and, basically, they never even came up in conversation. Everyone understood where our money came from — we were running the campaign on donations. They supported us out of principle, and I’m incredibly grateful to all of them for that. It was awesome.
