How the Founder of Lady Gaga’s Biggest Fan Site Ended Up in Prison
Gaga Daily’s Kirill Nguyen is free—and streaming Mayhem—after being detained for protesting the Belarusian government
Kirill Nguyen, the founder of Lady Gaga's popular fan site Gaga Daily, returned from prison after being detained in Belarus. The fan site, which he had established nearly two decades ago, had been inactive since February 2024. Nguyen had attended a protest in Belarus in 2020, a country where Alexander Lukashenko had been re-elected for a sixth term as president amid widespread election fraud.
In 2023, Nguyen visited his family in Belarus and was subsequently arrested by state police forces. Upon his return, Nguyen expressed surprise at the overwhelming support he received from fans, some of whom had been regular visitors to the site since its inception in his teenage years.
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