Singer Zemfira (Zemfira Ramazanova) filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice with a demand to recognize the assignment of the status of “foreign agent” to her as illegal. It is reported by RBC with reference to the press service of the Zamoskvoretsky court. The application was submitted on May 10 through the representative of the singer.
The Ministry of Justice recognized Zemfira as a “foreign agent” in mid-February 2023, stating that the singer “openly performed” in support of Ukraine, gave concerts in “unfriendly countries” “with calls against a special military operation.”
Zemfira made an anti-war statement during a concert in Cyprus in October 2022. She called for an end to the war and sang the song "Don't Shoot". A month after the singer was added to the register of “foreign agents”, Zemfire released a video for the song PODNHA, in which she called the Motherland “sick”, “thinned” and “numb”.
Earlier, Andrei Makarevich filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice for entering “foreign agents” into the register. The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow rejected the claim of the leader of the Time Machine group.