Ukrainian nationalists, who disrupted Konstantin Raikin’s concert in Odessa last weekend, say that the artist’s fans are “to blame” for the riots, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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Thus, one of the leaders of the Odessa Right Sector activists, Sergei Sternenko, said on Channel 5 that what infuriated the nationalists most of all was not Raikin himself, but his fans, who refused to respond to provocations.
“The greatest blow to Raikin came from his fans, who behaved, to put it mildly, inappropriately and at times aggressively. They refused to answer the question “whose Crimea?” They said: “What difference does it make whose Crimea is?”, “What difference does it make who is fighting against us?” They were absolutely not worried about Raikin’s position on Crimea and, unfortunately, these are our citizens, these are citizens of Ukraine who go to the polls, also influence the situation in the country, and there are very, very many such citizens today, at least in Odessa,” Sternenko said.