Vilnius Mayor asked to assess the threat from Morgenstern's speech in Lithuania

Vilnius Mayor Valdas Benkunskas has asked the Lithuanian State Security and Police Department to assess the potential risks associated with the planned performance of Russian rapper Alisher Morgenstern (recognized as a foreign agent in Russia). Benkunskas announced this on August 10.

"I have asked the State Security Department and the police to assess the possible risks associated with a threat to national security and public order of our state," follows a post on the social network Facebook (owned by Meta, banned in the Russian Federation).

According to the mayor, he also sent inquiries to the country's Foreign Ministry and Interior Ministry about a possible ban on the artist's entry. He stressed that this was Morgenstern's fourth attempt to organize a concert in Vilnius.

Benkunskas noted that last year the migration department banned the artist from entering Lithuania for 10 years, but the country's supreme administrative court overturned this decision due to procedural violations.

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Izvestia found out on July 14 that the performance of rapper Miron Fedorov (included in the register of foreign agents by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation), known under the pseudonym Oxxxymiron, was canceled in the UK. In addition, the rapper's performance was planned in Dublin at The TLT concert hall on September 20, but information about him disappeared from the official program of the institution.