Members of the Bi-2 group are deported from Thailand, said Russia Genconsul in Phuket

The members of the Bi-2 group will be laid from Phuket to Bangkok for subsequent deportation from Thailand “for holding concerts without a work permit” said TASS Genconsul of the Russian Federation in Phuket Province Vladimir Sosnov.

“Today we received information from the Office of the Immigration Police of the Phuket province that members of the Bi -2 group, seven people, will be transferred to the Thai Royal Police Immigration Bureau in Bangkok for subsequent deportation in the coming days,” he said.

He also indicated that five of the seven members of the group are Russian citizens. “Two more members of the groups entered Thailand through the passports of Israel and Australia,” Sosnov said.

Earlier, musicians were sentenced to a fine of $ 95 from each (about 8.5 thousand rubles). The source of the project “We can explain”, close to the Russian diplomatic department, said that the abolition of the concerts of Russian artists (with an anti -war position) in Thailand occurs at the request of the Russian General Consul in Phuket Vladimir Sosnov:

“As far as I know, this is the initiative of Sosnov personally. But perhaps he was asked about this by Lavrov himself, for whom Thailand is one of the last countries where he is well accepted. ”

“Bi-2” is a Russian-speaking rock band formed in 1988 in Bobruisk (Belarus). The founders and permanent participants are Shura Bi-2 and Leva Bi-2. The team also includes Andrei Zvonkov, Max Lakmus, Boris Lifshitz and Jan Nikolenko. In May 2023, the Russian Ministry of Justice recognized Igor Bortnik (the real name of Leva Bi-2) “foreign agent”.

The Bi-2 group almost from the very beginning of a full-scale war left the territory of Russia. The reason for the departure by the musicians called "political views and problems with concert activities." Frontman Igor Bortnik (Leva) publicly opposed the war.

“You are killers. You crossed out all your achievements. And the achievements were common with Ukraine and Europe. Everything that Putin's Russia is now causes is only disgust and disgust. I'm not going to pick up a single word. Putin and all of his mentally backward spleen destroyed our country. Read your "obscurantist" lectures at the military enlistment office. "