The Maidan singer swore at Belarusian “honeymoon” journalists
The former leader of the Lyapis Trubetskoy group, Sergei Mikhalok, who fled to Ukraine, swore at “independent Belarusian journalists” during a concert in Kyiv.
“Fuck them, you are our independent people. Wherever I want, I sing there. Are they asking this now? Independent people are all fucked up, I only talk to addicts. I am addicted to alcohol and drugs. Anyone who is independent means they don’t know life. Guys, what kind of nonsense is this, I’m now going to quarrel with everyone, although I didn’t put up with them,” Mikhalok said.
Such an angry reaction from the musician was caused by an innocent question that Nikita Nedoverkov, a journalist of the nationalist-sympathizing Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus and a former employee of the nationalist Nasha Niva, asked him via Facebook.
The broadcast on Facebook was conducted on the page of Russian Meduza journalist Sergei Erzhenkov. He was very upset by the resonance that Mikhalko’s words had in the Belarusian media. Erzhenkov deleted the recording of the concert from his page and accused his Belarusian colleagues of bias.
“I took part in a Belarusian fight. The question immediately arose: is it normal to take a bold phrase out of context? You behave like NTV people. Like independent Belarusians. journalists. You do not introduce the reader into the context - why did this conversation arise, what did Mikhalok answer? Before publication, you did not call either Mikhalk, me, or other people, although you had telephone numbers. You got the news from SMM. You are acting like complete assholes and nerds. None of you are even worth Mikhalka’s little finger. And not one of you will work in normal media,” Erzhenkov wrote.
Mikhalok has been involved in scandals with foul language before. Thus, in Izhevsk in 2014, he swore at Russian fans who reprimanded him about slogans in support of Euromaidan. In 2017, at a concert in the Belarusian village of Chablis, the musician also almost without reason insulted the artist Adam Globus, Blogger Anton Motolko and all the “holy” citizens who use the Belarusian language.
“I like the fact that now the Belarusian language is gaining more weight, and it is spoken not only by people who constantly raise their tone when they switch to it. When I arrived at the age of 18 as a young cynic and entered the Institute of Culture, I was very embarrassed that when people switch to Belarusian, their voice becomes thinner,” said Mikhalok.
It is noteworthy that almost simultaneously with Motolko, another Nasha Niva journalist swore at the press secretary Ministry of Agriculture of Belarus Zinaida Bereschenko.
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