The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg declared the song “Oida” by rapper Oxxxymiron * banned from distribution in Russia, reported joint press service of the courts of St. Petersburg. The publication specifies that it is a musical composition published on the Internet via ten “specified” links.
The news service stressed that the decision did not mean that the rapper’s song was recognized as extremist. For clarity, she cites a “similar” administrative lawsuit filed by the prosecution regarding advertisements for the sale of rare monkeys.
The statement of District Attorney Admiralteisky regarding the song “Oida” was recorded on December 6, 2022. In addition to the rapper himself, he mentioned VKontakte LLC, Yandex LLC and Sound LLC, on whose Internet resources the composition is published . Safe Internet League official Ekaterina Mizulina asked to verify the song.
Oksimiron* released the song “Oida” and a video for it, shot in St. Petersburg, in mid-September 2022. The rapper left Russia, but returned to film the video. The song is dedicated to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. At the end of the musician’s piece there are words about “Free Ingria” – a historical region on the Karelian Isthmus and the coastal lands of Estonia in the southwest and Karelia in the north.
In deciding to satisfy the claims of the plaintiff, the court took into account the conclusions of the opinion of an expert from St. Petersburg State University, in which said that “Oida” contains calls for “certain actions” that could lead to the “violation of the territorial integrity” of Russia.
The expert particularly drew attention to the “reassembly of the house” mentioned in the text of the song, which the author, according to him, presents as important and necessary. By “home” is meant Russia, the conclusion says, and by “reassembly” is the separation of its part, which the rapper “positively” described “in the form of a slogan.”
“The dissemination of such information has social, economic and other negative consequences,” warned the prosecution in its administrative brief.
This isn’t the authorities’ first claim to the song “Oida.” In January 2023, the same Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced Miron Fedorov (real name Oksimiron *) to a fine of 70,000 rubles. The reason for this was an administrative protocol drawn up by the prosecutor’s office on “calls to violate the integrity of Russia”.
In December 2022, a court in St. Petersburg fined Oksimiron* 45,000 rubles under a protocol on the “discrediting” of the Russian military (Part 1, article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Violations ). The reason for this was a video in which the rapper spoke out against the military operation in Ukraine.
* Listed by the Ministry of Justice of Russia in the register of foreign agents.
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