Little Big concert in Yerevan canceled by organizers due to security threats

The concert of the Russian band Little Big in Yerevan, scheduled for August 12, has been canceled due to security concerns. The team promised to return the money for the tickets.

“The organizers cannot guarantee that the event will be uneventful, so a general decision has been made to cancel the concert,” Little Big said in a statement. “In contact with”. No other details are given.

Money for tickets will automatically be returned to the card from which the payment was made within 14 days. “We are very sorry about the situation that has arisen and we apologize to everyone who wanted to get to our concert,” the message says.

Well-known lawyer in Armenia Ara Zohrabyan informedthat more than 1,000 citizens of Armenia turned to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a demand to initiate a criminal case against Little Big frontman Ilya Prusikin (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation).

According to the lawyer, citizens also called for a ban on the band’s concert on August 12 in Yerevan. The reason was the video of Mr. Prusikin, recorded last Christmas. On it, he dressed up as a priest and used a Christian cross as a skateboard.

In 2022 Little Big spoke against the Russian special operation in Ukraine and released an anti-war video for the song Generation Cancellation. The group then moved to Los Angeles. In the summer of 2022, Little Big is completely canceled Russian tour of 26 concerts. In January 2023, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation acknowledged Ilya Prusikin as a foreign agent.

Olesya Pavlenko