Individuals participating in Putin’s pro-war rally at Luzhniki stadium have to be sanctioned
Free Russia Foundation has compiled a list of Russians who had participated in Vladimir Putin’s pro-war rally that took place on March 18, 2022 at Luzhniki stadium in Moscow.
The event was held in support of the brutal war that Russia has been waging against Ukraine for over three weeks now killing thousands of civilians in Ukraine, including children, bombing residential buildings and hospitals.
The list consists of Russian opinion leaders and celebrities – propaganda bullhorns – who with their activities promote the war crimes of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.
Concert hosts
- Maria Eduardovna Sittel – Russian television presenter and an anchor on the Vesti program at Russia 1
- Dmitry Viкtorovich Guberniev – Russian TV presenter, sports commentator of TV channel Match TV, Confidant of Vladimir Putin
Concert speakers and orators
- Dmitry Anatolyevich Pevtsov – Russian theater and film actor, singer, musician, teacher, Member of the State Duma, member of the «New People» (political pro-Putin party) faction
- Vladimir Lvovich Mashkov – Russian theater and film actor and director, screenwriter, film producer, public figure. Artistic director of the Moscow Theater Oleg Tabakov, Confidant of Vladimir Putin
- Artem Vladimirovich Zhoga – the commander of the Sparta Battalion, a pro-Russian separatist force that is involved in the Russo-Ukrainian War. The father of ex-commander of the Sparta Battalion Vladimir Artemovich Zhoga, who was killed in in Ukraine 05 March 2022
- Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova – Russian civil servant, diplomat. Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MFA of Russia), spokesman and official representative of the MFA of Russia
- Margarita Simonovna Simonyan – Propagandist, Russian journalist and media manager. Editor-in-Chief of the RT TV channel, of the Rossiya Segodnya international news agency and of the Sputnik news agency, Confidant of Vladimir Putin
- Tinatin (Tina) Givievna Kandelaki – Russian journalist, TV presenter, producer, public figure, founder of the cosmetic brand ANSALIGY, Deputy General Director of Gazprom-Media and Managing Director of Gazprom-Media Entertainment Television, Acting Director of the TNT TV channel
- Victor Anatolyevich Polyakov – Russian aircraft engineer, Deputy General Director – Managing Director of PJSC UEC-Saturn of the United Engine Corporation Confidant of Vladimir Putin
- Vladimir Abdualievich Vasilyev – Deputy of the State Duma
- Sergey Mikhailovich Mironov – Deputy of the State Duma
- Alexey Gennadievich Nechayev – Deputy of the State Duma
- Alexey Yakovlevich Shloknik – The Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Director
- Yaroslav Yevgenyevich Nilov – Deputy of the State Duma
Singers and celebrities
- Polina Sergeyevna Gagarina – Russian singer, songwriter, actress, model, Confidant of Vladimir Putin
- Oleg Mikhaylovich Gazmanov – Russian singer, actor, composer, poet, producer, specializing in patriotic songs, Confidant of Vladimir Putin
- Nikolay Vyacheslavovich Rastorguyev – Vocalist, soloist, the lead singer of the Russian group Lyube, Confidant of Vladimir Putin
- Vitaly Feoktistovich Loktev – Keyboardist, bayanist, Lyube group
- Alexander Erokhin – Drummer, Lyube group
- Sergey Pereguda – Guitarist, Lyube group
- Dmitry Streltsov – Bass player, Lyube group
- Alexey Tarasov – backing vocalist, Lyube group
- Pavel Suchkov – backing vocalist, Lyube group
- Alexey Vladimirovich Kantur – backing vocalist, Lyube group
- Vasily Georgievich Gerello – Russian opera singer, soloist of the Mariinsky Theater
- Natalia Yuryevna Podolskaya (Natalla Padolskaja) – Belarusian and Russian pop singer
- Timur Ildarovich Yunusov (Timati) – Russian rapper, singer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur. Confidant of Vladimir Putin
- Anastasiya Vasilevna Makeyeva (Malkova-Makeyeva) – Russian theater, film and dubbing actress, singer, fashion model, TV presenter
- Moscow Cossack Choir
- Marina Firsova – Soloist of the Moscow Cossack Choir
- Ksenia Babikova – Soloist of the Moscow Cossack Choir
- Antonina Kochergina – Soloist of the Moscow Cossack Choir
- Maria Korneva – Artist of the Moscow Cossack Choir
- Andrey Kargopolov – Artist of the Moscow Cossack Choir
- Svetlana Chebanko – Soloist of the Moscow Cossack Choir
- Anton Kornev – Soloist and director of the Moscow Cossack Choir
- Anna Valyavina (Goncharova) – Soloist of the Moscow Cossack Choir
- Artem Limin-Kosachev – Soloist of the Moscow Cossack Choir
- Sergei Zhuravlev – Soloist of the Moscow Cossack Choir
- Natalia Alexandrovna Kachura – concert performer, artist-vocalist of the Music and Drama Theater. M. M. Brovun (Donetsk, DPR)
- Victoria Petrovna Dayneko – Russian singer and actress
- Ballet by Alla Dukhovaya “Ballet Todes” – Russian dance group and a network of schools-studios for teaching dance art
- Nikolay Viktorovich Baskov – Singer
- Sergey Evgenievich Zhukov – Singer
- Alexander Vladimirovich Oleshko – Actor
- Alexander Felixovich Sklyar – Singer
- Dmitry Vadimovich Kharatyan – Singer
- Yaroslav Dronov (SHAMAN) – Singer
- Oksana Vladimirovna Nechitaylo (Sogdiana) – Singer
- Anna Sergeyevna Tsoy – Singer
- Evgeniy Nikolayevich Prilepin (Zakhar Prilepin) – Writer
- Evgeni Viktorovich Plushenko – Figure skater
- Adelina Dmitriyevna Sotnikova – Figure skater
- Svetlana Sergeyevna Zhurova – Speed skater
- Svetlana Vasilyevna Khorkina – Artistic gymnast
- Alexander Gennadiyevich Legkov – Cross-country skier
- Dina Alekseyevna Averina – Rhythmic gymnast
- Arina Alekseyevna Averina – Rhythmic gymnast
- Alexander Alexandrovich Bolshunov – Cross-country skier
- Evgeny Mikhailovich Rylov – Swimmer
- Viktoria Viktorovna Listunova – Artistic gymnast
- Vladimir Evgenyevich Morozov – Figure skater
- Victoria Alexandrovna Sinitsina – Figure skater
- Nikita Gennadyevich Katsalapov – Figure skater