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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that the Kremlin should play a leading role in Russian rap and youth culture instead of trying to ban it. The comments follow a series of program cancellations by businessmen and local authorities and the brief arrest of rapper Husky in November.
Repression has sparked discussions in recent months, particularly among young people. In November, colleagues from Husky, such as rapper Obadymiron, staged a concert in Moscow in his honor.
Putin attended a meeting broadcast live with an Advisory Council for Culture and the Arts. In this document, the Russian president said such cumbersome measures were often counterproductive and suggested an alternative approach.
"If it is impossible to stop something, you must take care of it," Putin said.
"How to do this, how to take charge and guide in the direction needed … This is the most important issue," he said that members of his administration and the Ministry of Culture would discuss further the issue.
Husky, who raps in Russian and whose songs criticize the government, said his broadcasts were under pressure because many consider his words offensive. After the cancellation of the show in Krasnodar, southern Russia, the artist tried to perform on the roof of a car. The police did not like him and took him to jail for vandalism.
The detention of Husky, sentenced to 12 days in prison, provoked public demonstrations. The rapper was later released thanks to the intervention of members of the presidential administration, said the editor of Russia Today on Twitter.
Putin on Saturday answered a statement on cancellations of rap performances by music producer and advisory council member Igor Matvienko, who proposed the creation of a consultative parent guidance system for concerts, in which the president responded:
"You have says that rap (holds) three pillars: bad, drugs and demonstrations. drugs are the most worrying. They are the means to degrade a nation. "
Putin also addressed the question of how to regulate the use of censorship language by the musical genre.The Russian president said that he had spoken of scandals with a linguist
"She said it was part of our language, but just the way you used it," he said.
Matvienko also suggested guidelines for the use of blasphemy online and in the media, but Putin said that it is a delicate issue, as these words are part of the Russians culture.
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