Rapper Ptakha (David Nuriev) commented to The Insider on NTV, where he criticized the mobilization and war in Ukraine. Nuriev notes that he supports SVO, but he has questions. According to him, the presidential administration treats adequate remarks normally, just like Vladimir Putin himself.
“No one asks me to be more restrained, and I can say that I really express my personal opinion. And this is the personal opinion of my inner circle plus my friends who are in the NWO zone. I ask questions that interest me. The tale of some kind of super-totalitarianism in our country, where nothing can be said, is complete nonsense, I think. You just need to speak correctly and express yourself correctly, adequately. I do not call for demolition of the system or to go to illegal rallies, to fight with the police. I'm asking factual questions. There are questions – I'm waiting for an answer.
Plus, I know how the Presidential Administration treats the truth and adequate questions, and in the person of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, I also noticed this more than once. In principle, a normal question always causes an adequate answer. It’s just that our pseudo-truth-tellers escaped, mother’s revolutionaries – I personally don’t remember Nelson Mandela dumped somewhere or someone else there, or Che Guevara to run away from his country … And these are such mother’s revolutionaries, they can talk there, but what – immediately run with full diapers.
So, if you behave adequately and ask the right questions and offer some solutions in a dialogue calmly, you can move on and no one will do anything, I think so. And as I spoke the truth, I will speak the truth. Why not? I don't do anything wrong."
Earlier, Ptakha on NTV twice criticized the war in Ukraine and said that as part of the mobilization to the front, young people are “driven like sheep”, sick people without any medical examination.
In November 2020, rapper Morgenstern stated in an interview with Yuri Dudyu that he is rather indifferent to the problems of society, since he believes that everyone is to blame for how they live. Morgenstern said that he does not divide what is happening into black and white. Then he declared that “out of politics”, that in Russia there is everything for development. “You just have to accept everything, I stopped dividing the world into good and bad. If something happens, then I will not argue with it. I only take care of my life and do not argue with the actions of politicians.” He also said that "Putin is handsome."
"Powerful man. This is not about any political actions, but simply as a person. Cool. <…> I used to blame someone else for my failures. That someone else is to blame, that the people live poorly. And then I realized that it was my fault that I live badly. The problem with our people is that they blame others for their poor lives. But no one owes you anything. People need to understand that you are the only one to blame for your bad life. You accept the rules of the game, learn them, don't fight them, just use them for yourself. We have a wonderful country to build a business in, to rise. This can be done easily. The main thing is just to stop whining, stop blaming the top, find loopholes, accept the rules of the game and use it, and not complain about them.
At the end of March 2021, the Safe Internet League turned to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to check the musician for possible drug propaganda among children. In November 2021, the head of the Investigative Committee, Bastrykin, accused Morgenstern of drug trafficking on social networks.
On June 3, the Zyuzinsky Court of Moscow found Morgenstern guilty of an administrative offense under Part 1 of Art. 6.13 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (“Propaganda of drugs”). By a court decision, he was imposed an administrative fine in the amount of 100 thousand rubles. The reason for bringing the artist to administrative responsibility then was the statement about the verification of his clips "Rose Wine – 2" and Family.
He left the country.