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Russian prosecutor asks court to declare anti-war rapper's work 'extremist' - media

FILE PHOTO: Russian rapper Oxxxymiron waits for the announcement of a verdict in the trial of Russian film and theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov outside a court building in Moscow, Russia June 26, 2020. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo

A Moscow prosecutor has asked a court to declare as "extremist" the work of rapper Oxxxymiron, one of Russia's most popular musicians, who has publicly opposed the invasion of Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported.

Interfax quoted a spokesperson for the Moscow prosecutor's office as saying that investigators were probing "justification of acts of violence and the ideology of violence" in one of Oxxxymiron's songs.

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