A group of Ukrainian MPs have
demanded that secret services (SBU) chief Vasily Gritsak ban
Italian singer Toto Cutugno from the country due to alleged
pro-Russian positions.
ANSA was told the news on Friday by one of the MPs who made
the request, Viktor Romanyuk, confirming reports on Thursday
that appeared in Economistua.com.
Cutugno's manager Danilo Mancuso told ANSA: "Toto has always
been far from the political ambit and in all his life has never
expressed himself in any direction".
Ukraine's culture ministry on Monday put another Italian
singer, Albano Carrisi, better known by his stage name Al Bano,
on its list of individuals considered a threat to national
security.
Al Bano and his ex-wife Romina Power were big in the Soviet
Union in the 1980s and they are still popular in Russia.
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