Singer Eduard Sharlot, convicted for rehabilitating Nazism and insulting the feelings of believers, has expressed a desire to go from the colony to the war. His father, Valery Sharlot, reported this to the RIA Novosti agency.
"There was a similar conversation. At first, he wanted to participate in the SMO, then changed his mind, and later, it seems, such an intention arose again, but he was refused. It was unclear in what role he could go," the father noted.
In a conversation with RT, he added that initially the colony administration agreed to support Sharlot's initiative to be sent to the front, but later rejected it due to violations committed by the artist.
In December 2024, the court sentenced Sharlot to 5.5 years in a colony on charges of rehabilitating Nazism and insulting the feelings of believers. The basis was four videos: in one, he tore the letter Z; in another, he burned a Russian passport; in a third, he nailed a military ID to a cross with an image of Patriarch Kirill; and in a fourth, he "altered the lyrics of the song 'Victory Day' in an explicitly offensive manner."
In August, Sharlot was transferred from a settlement colony to a correctional colony because he "violated regime rules" and "incited other convicts to negative behavior."