The organizers of the concert of stand-up comedian Danila Poperechny in Tashkent turned off the artist's microphone during the performance every time "a joke or topic was at least indirectly related to the current agenda." Transverse himself spoke about this on his Instagram page:
“There could be a text about what a wonderful concert for one and a half thousand people took place in Tashkent, but the truth is that all the material, in one way or another connected with what is happening in the world, was cut out of my concert. Literally every time a joke or topic touched on the current agenda at least indirectly, they simply cut down the microphone on the stage right during the performance.
They even independently cut out a joke from the opener of the concert, where there was simply the word "Russia", without coordination.
As a result, at least 50 minutes of material was "muted" at the behest of local law enforcement agencies. Felt at home.
My deepest apologies to the viewers for receiving some kind of stub instead of the show they paid for, and I will repeat what I already said from the stage: if you want to issue a refund – I will have no questions!
At the moment, you are the only city that has received a program in this form, and I myself am extremely upset that at the last moment this kindergarten began at the agreed site.
One thing in the situation fucked up – that if the local cops came to figure out what I said from the stage, we would answer: “So I didn’t say anything in the end, it turns out!)” ”
Edition “Newspaper . uz”, citing the audience, confirmed that the comedian’s microphone really turned off as soon as he wanted to say something about the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin or other political topics.
Here is what one audience member had to say:
“I was sitting right in the second row, and I was ashamed of all this. When people began to resent what was happening in the hall, shouting ‘Glory to Ukraine’ and that they were ‘for the end of the war’, people from the police in plain clothes began corny to take these people out of the hall under the pretext of ‘we need to talk’.”