Canceled "Orange" rock concert in St. Petersburg. Provocation or scandal?

On Sunday in St. Petersburg in sports palace "Jubilee" was not a rock concert "Petersburg maidan" rather than famous Ukrainian groups that performed in Kiev during the "Orange Revolution" and their Russian colleagues. The organizers claim that canceling the concert, fearing provocations. Inscriptions on billboards events "Beat the Orange Plague" were, and called the office of the producers unknown threats According to observers, the organizers of the concert have used political pretext to justify its failure to organize the show. Rock Concert "Petersburg maidan" was scheduled for April S in sports palace "Jubilee." Announced that its members "Vidopliassova Cries", "Okean Elzy" Tequilajazzz, "tight leg" to "Czyz and Co" to be, and as media sponsors "Nashe Radio", Ukrainian television and were "5th channel." However, two days before the concert organizers were film Concern "Drimskaner" a statement about the cancellation of the concert and that tickets purchased can be taken in cash. As head of the project b "Petersburg maidan" Andrei Nekrasov was a concert called "in the form of a video clip talking about the revolutionary power of rock music." According to Mr. Nekrasov concert organizers were inspired by Ukrainian events, but did not think "Petersburg maidan" as political action. Company "Drimskaner" directed spouse Mrs. Equine Andrei Nekrasov, not in show business works, says, "Kommersant". Notoriety "Drimskaneru" brought low-budget films. Tape "Love and Other Nightmares", took part in an informal program in 2001 Berlin Film Festival, is a collection of paintings of Russian life with the homeless and poor, which is set against the backdrop of the fate of two Russian lesbians (in the role of one of them shot himself Mrs. Horse) documentary "Disbelief" tells of the apartment bombings in Moscow in 1999. The production of a rock concert attracted Petersburg ad agency "pilot" and the campaign began on 17 March. On the same day as the producer of the show told Kommersant Olga Horse, the organizers had the first threatening call. According to Ms. Equine, unknown long questioned her about the concert, and then promised to "organize departments orange plague." As I said, Mrs. Horse, threatening phone calls were regularly in the following days, and on the morning of 29 March, a couple of posters have more color Label: made According to the organizers, fearing provocations, they concert the "Beat the orange plague. '. To the press release announcing the abolition of the "Maidan" connected digital photo poster with the words "orange plague", but neither say where hung a broken billboard, or to explain why they have not statement written by the police, could not the organizers. The police of St. Petersburg, where Kommersant reporter reported on the question of whether study threats to the organizers of the "Maidan" turned hold, that this information can be provided only at the request of the victims themselves. On TV station, which is partly involved in inviting groups and planned TV show with their participation, Kommersant said that the musicians have their consent to participate to the concert. Thus, the "Va-Bank", for example, would stop for two days tour of Siberia. His intention, on 3 April worked in St. Petersburg confirmed Kommersant group "Czyz and Co" and Tequilajazzz, whose leader Evgeny Fedorov pointed out that the proposal of Mrs Equine it. Three weeks before the performance "The organizers strongly emphasized that the show has nothing to do with politics. I asked her what it would be if all of Orange has become so popular with the politicians?" - Said the musician. Director of the "leg tight!" Sergey Raskin, told Kommersant that the group was invited to participate in the concert "Friends with TV stations, which are so called back and said that everything is canceled." "I did not know that the show is called" independence ", - added Mr. Ruskin -. 'Leg tight!" not interfere in politics. "This is also the director of" Siskin & Co. "Andrew Asanov:" The involvement of the concert does not mean a policy sing two songs - and everything ".. According to Mr. Asanov musicians invited to the "Maidan" to "shooting in a film about the friendship between the Russian and Ukrainian artists", and the details of the concert agency no dedicated. Avoided until now, in St. Petersburg, the need to "orange revolution" in Russia talk seriously only members of the organization "Walking Together." However, representatives of the movement told Kommersant in history had nothing to do with the cancellation of a rock concert. "I think that the organizers do not have enough money, or maybe they are not going to be a concert," - said one of the leaders of the local "Walking Together" Alexey Kuznetsov. This opinion is shared by many famous producers in St. Petersburg, including PMI CEO Eugene Finkelstein. Mr. Finkelstein is confident that the concert cancellation policy reasons "excuses" only. "The organizers of Petrograd Maidan" none of the participants in local show business is not known. Or promoters are not able to pay the fees of artists and fear of failure or have paid fees in advance, and the artists themselves have refused to take the risk. So the reason to terminate the concert could only be one - Unprofessional "- said Mr. Finkelstein's department of concerts Palace of Sports." Jubilee "confirmed Kommersant that the concert was scheduled, but was (due to the fact that the tickets were performed sold to Eugene Finkelstein, less than 500 tickets have been sold despite the fact that the hall one thousand more than 9. Places) and the organizer has losses - about one million rubles, as indicated Mrs. Horse. According to her, the Sponsor - withdrew from the project after the appropriate "recommendations" of security - a branch of Bank of Moscow (whose name she did not disclose).