“Potap continues to be hiip and rush to the side so that they don’t forget about him,” Demin said. “Personally, I believe that Potap purposefully does absurd and shocking things to at least somehow keep afloat. Because in fact, Ukrainian show business and spectators can do without this artist. He can collect only 200-300 people.”
According to Demin, all Potap's attempts to promote abroad his new Slavic Balagan project has not yet been brought to him the expected result.
“If Alexey listened to people from show business who live in Ukraine and repeatedly told him what could be done to return to the Ukrainian show business, then he would have a cool but, as we see, Alexei Potapenko chose the path of clowning, a cheap and low-grade product. But the Ukrainian viewer no longer“ doesn’t hawe ”such.
The presenter noted that either the Potap will have to accept the new rules of the game, or he will remain an artist who is only able to speak abroad in nightclubs with a sneaker on his head, as he did 10 years ago.
Context
Potap since the fall of 2023 lives abroad. He Secretly left Ukraine and officially did not say that he was returning.
In early February 2025, in an interview with Russian journalist Yuri Dudy Potap, he said that he had left the country without violating the laws.
On January 16, Potap started a new page on InstaGram and introduced himself as a Slavic Balagan. The artist positions himself not as a Ukrainian showman, but as a representative of Eastern Europe.
July 3 Potap the disaster announcement of the clip, In which he portrayed the fight Tina Karol and Loboda. Tina Karol, in response, accused the artist of parasitizing on famous artists who became more successful than himself.
“This is not creativity, but a void, disguised as a provocation. To use images, to disfigure them to draw attention to where there is no content for a long time, this is not a gesture of the artist, but an act of despair,” said Tina Karol. “This is a cheap vagabond in the shadows of those whom you will never become.” She recalled that Potap, who escaped from Ukraine two years ago, does not imagine what was happening in Kyiv.
“Dated,” said Potap artist in response
