Drag queen Bomba Kibersisi (real name — Sergey Nechaev) that sang the Russian anthem in a gay club while holding a LGBT flag was made to apologise to the Russian people, reports a Yekaterinburg outlet It’s My City.
The video with Nechaev’s apology was published by members of the ultra-right movement Conservative Russia, which was founded in Yekaterinburg this spring.
“I would like to voluntarily apologise to Russian people for offending their national feelings. I’m grateful to the guys for making me see in a well-argued manner that such behaviour is unacceptable. I’m sorry for what I did,” the drag queen says on the video. On screen, while Nechaev is apologising, someone is holding his shoulder.
Previously, an administrative protocol was drawn up against him for violating the order of the official use of Russian state symbols. “The singer and the place, where the incident had taken place, have already repented for what happened by admitting the rightfulness of the police agents’ motivations. The Middle Urals aren’t America or Europe with their pseudo democracy, similar 'tricks' will never be welcome here,” the law enforcement statement reads.
On 7 August, Vice Chair of the State Duma’s Committee on Family, Women, and Children, Vitaly Milonov, wrote a post on social media, in which he had criticised the drag queen’s performance and proposed to send Bomba Kibersisi to undergo compulsory psychiatric treatment.
On the same day, the administration of the club Fame, in which the performance had taken place, said on its Telegram channel that the “artist’s performance was not agreed upon with the club management” and apologised. In his turn, the drag queen told E1.ru that he “didn’t think that people would see it as disrespectful and offensive to the state symbols”.
“I’m an ex-participant of the Chechnya War and a member of the LGBT community. I’m a patriot, I’m for Russia, and I’m proud to be its citizen,” he said.
