In a music video for the song “Malysh” (Baby), Alisa Vox criticises schoolchildren who take to streets to protest against the government.
The music video was uploaded to YouTube earlier this week. The song’s lyrics accuses protesting schoolchildren of arrogance and mercenariness and calls on them to start changing themselves instead of criticising the authorities. According to Meduza’s source, the video was ordered and paid by the Kremlin. The website learnt that Vox and her musicians were offered about 2 million rubles to “attack the opposition”.
The source says the musicians agreed to “effectively” criticise government opponents and protesters to later earn at corporate events organised by officials.
The Russian TV channel Dozhd (Rain) figured out that former employee of the president’s administration and former member of the parliament’s upper house Nikita Ivanov stands behind the scandalous music video. The information was confirmed by two sources close to the Kremlin. They report that the former official ordered the video and offered the idea for the clip.
Ivanov was in Putin’s election team in 1999 and has been cooperating with the president’s administration since then. He was in the team of Vladislav Surkov, Putin’s close ally and advisor, for a long time. In 2006-2009, he worked for the Kremlin officially as a coordinator of pro-Kremlin youth organisations. In 2011, Ivanov became a member of the Council of the Federation. He has been close to Russia’s security agencies in the past few years, according to Dozhd’s sources.
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