A TASS source explained the cancellation of the “Friend Zone” concert due to the small number of spectators. For some reason it was a source in the Kremlin

The TASS agency reported that the reason for the cancellation of the Friendzone concert in Nizhny Novgorod was not pressure on the musicians or organizers, but a small number of tickets sold.

The agency received the information from a source in the presidential administration of Russia. The Kremlin employee turned out to be aware not only of the number of tickets sold for the Friend Zone concert, but also the name of the organizer: “The organizer of the concert, IP Magomedov, sold only 150 out of 450 tickets, in connection with which, probably, the concert was canceled,” said He.

Update December 8th. Friendzone's tour manager, Anastasia Zaitseva, told Meduza that the reports that the concert was canceled due to poor sales were "a cover-up for real reasons" and that the concert was canceled due to "pressure from the authorities on the venues." She also said that a source in the Kremlin made a mistake in the name of the organizer: in fact, his name is Mamedov.

It can be assumed that the administration of the head of the Russian state received this information from the apparatus of his plenipotentiary representative in the Volga Federal District, since the source said: “According to the embassy, ​​there was no pressure on the organizer.”

The Friendzone group is among the Russian performers whose concerts have been canceled or disrupted under various pretexts in recent weeks. On December 5-6, under pressure from the security forces, were canceled concerts in Yaroslavl and Ivanovo the postponement of the concert in Nizhny Novgorod from December 7 to spring . The group announced with the wording "due to all known reasons."

Representatives of the Russian authorities publicly do not support the persecution of the musicians. On December 7, the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, called the bans stupid.