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Novosibirsk - A concert which popular rock musician Andrei Makarevich and St. Petersburg guitarist Ildar Kazakhanov were to give in Novosibirsk on Nov. 3 has been cancelled, Tatyana Kaigorodova, manager of Izyum Club, where the concert was to take place, told Interfax.

“The concert will not take place for a host of reasons, including political. You’d better ask their managers,” she said.

Makarevich’s concerts had previously been cancelled in other Russian cities, and twice in Samara.

Earlier reports said that State Duma Deputy Yevgeny Fyodorov had proposed revoking Makarevich’s Russian state awards for giving a concert in Ukraine. The lawmaker claimed that Makarevich’s concert was anti-Russian.

Makarevich threatened to sue Fyodorov for accusing him of “supporting fascism.” In an interview with Ekho Moskvy radio, he said that the goal of his trip to Ukraine, which the lawmaker cited, was to sing for refugees’ children in Sviatohirsk. However, individual media reported that he had given a concert to the Ukrainian military in Sloviansk.

Makarevich later asked President Vladimir Putin “to stop the vicious campaign” to discredit him.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Interfax that he did not understand why the musician had chosen Putin as the addressee.

“I don’t quite agree. What he sees as attacks can also be understood as the reaction of the public. I don’t think he should have appealed to the president,” Peskov said.