Lumen’s song “State” has disappeared from Yandex.Music, Spotify and Apple streaming services. The “Native Sound” telegram channel drew attention to this.
The 2005 album “Freedom”, in which this song was located, now includes not 13 songs as before, but 12. At the same time, the song is still present on the group’s official channel on YouTube. available.
In the spring of 2026, complaints about this song emerged from the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office, which saw it as “incitement to hatred of a social group” and demanded that the band’s lead singer, Rustam Bulatov, be brought to justice.
The court returned the report against Bulatov to the prosecutor’s office, as the musician had not been properly notified. He himself did not admit his guilt and explained that the complaints were against the Genius website, where the lyrics of the song were published.
Ufa Lumen’s song “State” from the 2005 album “Freedom” is famous for its line, “I love my country very much, but I hate the state.” After the outbreak of war in 2022, the Lumen group remained in Russia. Regarding the war, its leader spoke as follows: “We have our third point of view on all this, because what is happening in Ukraine did not start on February 24. This started in 2014. <…> But to our great surprise, <…> “A large number of Ukrainians simply did not notice this conflict.”