The police interviews friends of Denis Alien after his concert with jokes about Putin and corruption

Comedian Denis Alien told The Insider that after the publication of his concert “Further Sam”, the police became interested in you at YouTube. Immediately two comedian acquaintances in Zheleznogorsk, from where a stranger moved to Moscow, said that the police tried to find out his real name. According to the comedian, he used to deal with the police only because of the loss of the phone.

“They turned to two common friends, this happened at the same time, they gave me,” says a stranger. - They asked the real name, it is very easy to find out, they found out. I went to the lawyer, we discussed further actions. Now, while we are waiting, while there were no more reports on the part of law enforcement agencies. ”

According to the stranger, he does not see especially “dangerous” jokes in the concert, like his lawyer. The Kursk region, where the police are looking for information about him, include only two stories - about the King and the Jester group and how he was “accelerated” by issuing a passport for a bribe. The second story is fictitious, says the comedian.

However, many commentators immediately after the concert suggested that the stranger may have problems with the police - there are jokes about Vladimir Putin, corruption in Russia, Alexei Navalny and the procedure for transferring the presidency from Yeltsin - the comedian conducted a parallel with the cartoon “King Lion”.

Despite the interest of law enforcement agencies in comedians, a stranger has not yet intersected with them. “Only once - they robbed me, and the police said that they would most likely not look for my phone,” says the comedian.

In recent years, law enforcement agencies are increasingly interested in comedians. Employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, also known as the EE center, go to performances as on duty, and often take concerts to their cells. In 2018, the police briefly put on the wanted list of comedian Danila Perevichny, after the State Duma deputy Vitaliy Milonov complained about his video “Popkulture”. The latter also filed a lawsuit against the transverse, but the court rejected it.

In January 2020, a resident of Orekhovo-Zueva complained about the stand-up comic Alexander Dolgopolov due to insulting the feelings of believers. The reason was the joke that Bogdan was supposed to name Jesus, as this is the perfect name for the God of this child. Dolgopolov was forced to leave the country for six months to Israel.

On August 30, 2021, the Ministry of Internal Affairs for life banned the entry into Russia of a stand-up comic and a citizen of Belarus Idrack Mirzizade, recognizing him as a threat of national security due to a joke about Russians, mattresses and shit. Before that, he left for the punishment, having stayed for 10 days in a special detention center. Because of this joke, he was attacked on the street, hitting his head. The police did not look for the attackers. Now Mirzalizade is not in Russia.

The interests of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are heated by propagandists who often begin injuries themselves. One of them is Vladimir Solovyov, who made criticism of comedians one of the main topics of his YouTube Strem, painting minor stories with new epithets. These stories are picked up by various groups in Telegram, a stir is created, after which the Ministry of Internal Affairs makes sudden decisions - for example, on the deportation of a comedian Mirzalizade.

After him, Solovyov “took up” the comedian Alexei Kvashonkin, once again tearing out a joke from the context and presenting it as Russophobic. So far, nothing is known about the reaction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the speeches of Kvashonkin, but the Stand Up Club #1 administration just in case hid all the issues of the improvisational show “The Urazraz Birastsa”, where the comedians joked quite sharply, leaving only the issue from Minsk - it was there that the joke voiced by Soloviev sounds. Three of the four participants in this show are Idrakra Mirzizade, Alexey Kvashonkin and Alexander Dolgopolov.