Marshal had to apologize for an old program before a concert in Vladikavkaz.

Following calls from North Ossetian residents to cancel Alexander Marshal's planned concert in Vladikavkaz, the singer once again asked for forgiveness for his biased depiction of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict in a program on the Zvezda channel nine years ago.

As reported by Kavkazsky Uzel, in November 2016, Marshal's original program "Legends of the Army" about Yunus-Bek Yevkurov aired on the federal Zvezda television channel. The program sparked a wave of criticism for its one-sided portrayal of the events of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict of 1992. Social media users and politicians called it an attempt to incite hatred between the peoples, after which the channel's management issued a public apology to viewers.

Residents of North Ossetia are demanding the cancellation of a planned concert by singer Alexander Marshal, citing his program on the Zvezda channel, reported Soslan Didarov, a member of the republic's parliament. According to the deputy, appeals on this matter are mainly sent to him by young people.

"The wording is: 'He denigrated and accused Ossetians, blaming them for the 1992 conflict with their neighbors,'" Didarov wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to the deputy, he himself does not consider it appropriate to demand the cancellation of Marshal's concert, although he "perfectly understands and shares" their feelings. Didarov believes the incident was resolved almost immediately after it occurred, but now "someone is deliberately playing on the feelings of young people and throwing ethnic themes at them."

"Alexander Marshal was hosting a personal program, which is actually being produced by a group of people. And the editor-in-chief was then publicly fired from the Zvezda TV channel. "Alexander himself has publicly apologized twice for the one-sided, untrue interpretation and expressed his deep respect for Ossetia and its people," he wrote.

Before his concert in Vladikavkaz scheduled for November 25, Marshal himself recorded a video message with a new apology for that program. The recording was published by the Telegram channel "Ossetia - [æ]".

In the video, the singer lamented that after the announcement of his performance in North Ossetia, "those who want to rekindle the flames of an old mistake" appeared. He stated that at the time, he was merely the host of his "signature program" and "only read out the text prepared by the editor." "You know that the program was removed, and that editor was fired from his position (...) Once again, I ask you to forgive me, forgive me for this oversight. I am not a politician, I am a singer," Marshal declared on camera.