Fact #174989
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Speaking at a meeting of the presidential Council for Culture and Art in St Petersburg, Russian President Vladimir Putin asks his government to "take charge" of rap music after a number of rap concerts were cancelled across the country. Putin declares that efforts to ban rap were "impossible" and so the state should play a greater role in controlling it. The Ministry of Culture, he added, would find the best way to "navigate" youth concerts.