Warsaw, Poland – A Russian-Belarusian rock band that denounces Moscow’s Ukraine invasion returned to the stage this week, voicing defiance after being detained in Thailand in January and threatened with deportation to Russia.

 

The band, Bi-2, formed in the 1980s in Belarus when it was part of the Soviet Union, left Russia in protest over the offensive and has been touring ever since in countries with large Russian-speaking communities.

 

Ahead of a concert in Vilnius on Thursday, band members met with exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and supporters of late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who died in an Arctic prison last month.

 

Caption: This handout photograph released by Bi-2 rock band on March 17, 2024, shows the founder of the Bi-2 rock band Egor Bortnik known as Leva Bi-2 sitting on the floor at the immigration detention centre in Phuket on January 27.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-03-18

 

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What does this have to do with Thailand?

57 minutes ago, rexpotter said:

What does this have to do with Thailand?

They were arrested in Thailand because they had the wrong visas.

Thailand was going to deport them to Russia.

Who cares about this band or these guys? 

8 minutes ago, AlexPattaya said:

Who cares about this band or these guys? 

It is local news......

13 minutes ago, AlexPattaya said:

Who cares about this band or these guys? 

Their mothers?

15 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The band, Bi-2, formed in the 1980s in Belarus when it was part of the Soviet Union, left Russia in protest over the offensive and has been touring ever since in countries with large Russian-speaking communities.

Didn't want to swap guitars for Kalashnikovs more like.

2 hours ago, AlexPattaya said:

Who cares about this band or these guys? 

Their Mothers !

I like their music, their lyrics but also I think that Putin is the most rational and important statesman of this watershed era.

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Didn't want to swap guitars for Kalashnikovs more like.

Or swap their lives like a piece of meat.

4 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Their mothers?

By the looks of him, apparently not.