Russias Interior Ministry has actually provided an arrest warrant for rap artist Face, the exiled news outlet Mediazona reported Friday.Authorities have not disclosed the charges versus the 27-year-old artist, whose real name is Ivan Dremin.
He was labeled a foreign agent in 2022 and has because been fined several times for failing to comply with the constraints that status entails.Face left Russia shortly after the major invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
At the time, he announced he would stop performing in Russia and would remove his music from the countrys streaming platforms.The rap artist increased to popularity in 2017 with the viral music video Burger, which gathered more than 30 million views on YouTube.
His 2018 album Mysterious Ways marked a shift towards politically charged styles, taking aim at hardship, corruption and abuse in Russias prison system.Face had been a public advocate of the late opposition activist Alexei Navalny, attending numerous presentations backing the anti-Kremlin figure.His most current album, God of Rap, was launched in June 2024.