A Volgograd court fined rapper Yanix for songs about marijuana.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court in Volgograd fined rapper Yanix 10,000 rubles for posting tracks promoting drugs. Law enforcement officers found four such tracks online.

According to the court, in May, law enforcement officers found four songs by the famous rap artist Yanix publicly available on the Yandex Music service. According to a linguistic analysis, these songs contained lyrics about marijuana use.

The court found that the lyrics of the songs contained elements of drug propaganda, and a report on an administrative offense was filed against the musician, RIA Novosti reports.

"By decision of the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Volgograd, Yanix Badurov was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 1.1 of Article 6.13 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (propaganda or illegal advertising of narcotics) 1 . He was sentenced to an administrative fine of 10,000 rubles," a statement on the court's website said today.

According to Yandex Music, Yanix has 3.7 million monthly listeners on his VKontakte page. 642,000 people subscribe to his account, and his Telegram channel has 65,000 subscribers, the agency clarifies.

In July 2023, the music portal The Flow reported that Yanix had removed references to drugs from his old tracks. Specifically, the tracks "Vse Moi Houmi" and "Trap Khata" were modified, according to Kommersant.

Earlier, "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported that the Scientific Research Center for Forensic Science and Criminology found no extremism in the song "Pornofilmy" by the Russian rock band, which it examined at the request of a Volgograd court. Experts determined that the song "Kill the Beggars" belongs to the satirical genre.

However, on February 22, 2023, the Ministry of Justice included the song "Kill the Beggars!" by the group "Pornofilmy" in the list of extremist materials. This was brought to the attention of the "Network Freedoms" project. The decision to re-designate the song as extremist was issued by the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Volgograd on September 26, 2022, as Kommersant previously reported.