Ties with Zelensky: Alexander Revva's speech was canceled in St. Petersburg

The performance of comedian Alexander Revva, which was to take place in St. Petersburg was canceled on August 12. The artist was supposed to perform in the image of Arthur Pirozhkov at the Roof Fest festival.

The organizers confirmed that the concert would not take place, Revva's friendship with the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, was involved, the portal learned. 78.ru .

"The fact that the comedian president and Revva have been communicating for many years has been known for a long time. Alexander's father even called Zelensky his son's "best friend" in a conversation with journalists. In addition, users have long noted that Revva is not in Crimea, not on He did not perform in Donbass, and besides, they remember that after the start of SMO, the artist left the country, even though he returned later," the publication says.

At the same time, the portal notes that the connection with Zelensky influenced the cancellation of the event indirectly, most likely the festival on the roof was canceled for security reasons.

At the same time, the publication notes that social media users have been demanding the cancellation of the speech of the dubious patriot Revva since July of this year.

"If you believe the messages of users, investigators and city authorities were simply "overwhelmed" with requests to check the singer-comedian," the portal claims.

To attempts to block the creative activity of Revva in Bloggers have also joined Russia.

In early July, pranker Soryan (Suren Kagramanov), in a publication on his telegram channel, said that he had received a lot of messages from citizens who asked to ban the concert of Revva (Arthur Pirozhkov).

"For a long time Alexander Reva was absent from the screens, at concerts, he was not there… There was no, because I was thinking what to do: it seems to be against the war (respectively, against our help to the people of new regions), but it seems like I want to eat. I chose to eat! Residents of St. Petersburg, patriots, are against holding a concert of Russophobe and non-warrior Reva, on August 12. Maybe it makes sense for the authorities to listen to people?" — he wrote.

As reported by EADaily, in March of this year Revva almost for the first time answered the question about his departure.

"It is difficult to call a person who has not left a returnee. I tried not to get involved in these gossips, these lies. I wish you all the best, love. And I want to say: please don't touch my family. We were not going to go anywhere, we are here," he claimed.