my guest is boris grebenshchikov.last played in russia the day before putin invaded ukraine in february, and is now living in london. bg, as he is known to his fans, risks prosecution for his anti—war comments if he returns to russia. the role cultural icons have to play in the politics of protests is a well—trodden one, but do their voices have any impact inside russia? boris grebenshchikov, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. all right, so you last performed in russia just six hours before putin invaded ukraine. you say you had a sense of foreboding that something monumental was going to happen. what did you think was going to occur? you know, we played a concert on the night before the invasion, and i had this weird feeling that i'm playing in hamburg in 1939. so i knew that something really bad is coming. i couldn't predict the war, but, you know, it felt bad. and now, when you see ukrainian cities, where you performed, either being destroyed, some of the very theatres where you actually played, and also pl

my guest is boris grebenshchikov.

that's also, well, it's clear why i remembered boris grebenshchikov because when you have, and most importantlyy of grebenshchikov , but that, too, wait , wait, there is one more important difference. boris grebenshchikov is engaged in completely official open fundraising for ukraine, you will open a spiritual work. german from uh concerts, german german concerts not in germany and here they are. well, here, as it were, however, as far as i understand, he had codes before he began to study. something happened with this money withdrawal, right? before that, as he was not engaged, he gave a concert. here, and here it turns out, something happened, but you understand, when we talk about the fact that there are some, yes, but the wrong musicians, but again, these instagram united states and she waged the war in vietnam is now extremely popular. and so then everything is all cattle in short, when or there, as you call it, all all rockers. so all pop musicians, a bunch of students. eh, and the teachers came out to protest and, accordingly, it is difficult to remember that they also had such discussio

how boris borisovich grebenshchikov means alla boris on pugacheva who else is makarevich andrey akunincheva is not a foreigner. you know, i think that, by the way, immobilization doesn't seem to be a threat. yes, as i understand it, what they are leaving for, they turn on the news and hear speeches by vladimir vladimirovich putin there, unfortunately, akunin left for many years, they told some yes, he lives here in paris, as far as i know, it’s very little to continue writing and to publish his books in russia and talk , and why did he leave a long time ago? i’m just under a puddle of my thought, and these people are conditional slepakov or conditionally i don’t know there alla borisovna pugacheva cultural figures the humanitarian values ​​there are the history of russia, the fifth or tenth turn on the tv and listen to the speech of president putin vladimir vladimirovich, which he read out when these territories were annexed, but after listening to this speech, a person who now sees himself in the context of world culture. these are also boundaries. he pugachev turned it off and said i

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