Rapper Oxxxymiron performs at a Moscow club in November 2018. Photo: Maxim ZMEYEV / AFP/FileSource: AFPRussia on Friday labelled superstar rapper Oxxxymiron, popular among young Russians, a "foreign agent", according to the interior ministry's website. Oxxxymiron, the stage name of 37-year-old Miron Fyodorov, has called the Kremlin's Ukraine offensive a "catastrophe and a crime". His name was added to a register of "foreign agents" -- a term used to crackdown on Kremlin critics -- on the ministry's website. The rapper is one of thousands of Russians who left Russia since the Kremlin sent troops to Ukraine and has organised concerts in support of Ukrainian refugees from abroad.

Source: The Star October 07, 2022 22:33 UTC