In the official Telegram channel of the group, the members posted photos from the holiday, noting that they are on their annual summer vacation.

“We are surprised to read stuffing that we “secretly and hastily left the country,” they said.

At the end of July, Dmitry Kuznetsov, deputy from the A Just Russia - For Truth faction, asked FSB director Alexander Bortnikov to consider the possibility of banning entry to Russia for the soloists of the Bi-2 group.

In April, Ivan Kolesnik, First Deputy Minister of Sports and Youth Policy of the Omsk Region, announced that the concert of the Bi-2 rock band at the Krasnaya Zvezda sports complex in Omsk was canceled due to the musicians refusing to perform next to a patriotic banner.