“We need to be able to work with modern youth culture, so that it doesn’t turn into the fact that when someone doesn’t understand it by chance or doesn’t like it, it ends up banning concerts, it’s nonsense,” Kiriyenko said at a congress ".

Earlier, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov commented on the situation with the cancellation of concerts of a number of performers in the Russian regions. According to him, the Kremlin is closely watching these events.

Over the past few weeks, concerts of rappers Husky and Eljay, groups IC3PEAK and Frendzon have been canceled in a number of Russian regions for various reasons.

A round table on the topic “Freedom of speech in rap” took place in the State Duma.

Read more - in the material RT.