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Chairman of Public Council on Morals worried about Elton John`s coming Minsk show

Mikalay Charhinets, chairman of the Belarusian Public Council on Morals, has expressed worry about a show that the openly gay British singer Elton John in expected to perform Minsk this month, BelaPAN reports.

In an interview with Interfax, Mr. Charhinets said that the Council would watch the singer’s music video to ensure that it does “not incite homosexuality or contains other things offending public morals and Belarusian laws.”

Mr. John is scheduled to play his first-ever concert in Belarus at the Minsk-Arena complex on June 26.

Earlier this year, the Council expressed its strong opposition to a planned Minsk show of German rockers Rammstein who eventually performed in the Belarusian capital city on March 7. The Council said that “the band openly propagates homosexuality, masochism and other perversions, as well as cruelty, violence and abusive language.” “The group’s concerts often feature live acts of intercourse, ejaculation and acts of imitating the Nazis,” it said.