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The rock band Lyube is adored by Putin, its leader Nikolai Rastorguyev, a consultant to the Kremlin, so nationalist that he ends up being mocked by Ukrainian artists Mirko Sablic. Singer Oleg Gazmanov, another Putin idol, served the regime already under the USSR faithfully, being decorated with “The Order of Merit of the Fatherland” and being banned in Ukraine and the Baltic countries for hate speech.