The author of the “sovereign Internet” law proposed banning Western music

State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoi, speaking from the rostrum of parliament during the adoption of the law on special accounts for “foreign agents,” proposed banning foreign music posted on Russian music streaming platforms.

“I believe that music is propaganda, it is something that influences young people. And I think we will separately study this issue at our commission to investigate the facts of interference in internal affairs. There should be no foreign participation. Or no more than twenty percent. Otherwise, we won’t go that far with you,” Lugovoi said.

• Deputy Andrei Lugovoi is a former officer of the KGB of the USSR and the FSB of Russia, co-author of many bills that tightened Russian legislation. In particular, he was one of the developers of the law on the “sovereign Internet”, lobbied for bills on foreign agents and undesirable organizations, as well as on the confiscation of property for the spread of so-called fakes about the Russian army.
• In the UK, Lugovoy is accused of murdering former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who received political asylum in the country and was poisoned in London in November 2006. British investigators found traces of the substance that poisoned Litvinenko in hotels, restaurants and planes used by Lugovoi. According to media reports, the accused was treated for radiation poisoning in Moscow in December 2006. A year later, he was elected to the State Duma, receiving immunity. In 2015, Putin awarded Lugovoi the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.