Maria Alyokhina calls on artistic community to unite over Ukraine and repression in Russia
Decisions by cultural institutions to cut works by Russian artists and writers are “just stupid”, a member of the Russian punk protest grouphas said, as she called for the artistic community to unite against the invasion of Ukraine amid repression of activists in Russia “now at a level none of us have seen before”.
from its programme, the Royal Opera House eliminating the Bolshoi ballet from its summer season, an Italian university cancelling lectures on Dostoevsky, and Netflix paused an adaptation of Anna Karenina.. There’s no sense banning Tchaikovsky, but there will be sense in banning all Russian oil and gas.”
that a major Hollywood film studio had cancelled an adaptation of her book the Unwomanly Face of War on grounds that images of Russian women in military uniforms “wouldn’t be accepted by audiences in the west”, although she argued that the book is about the universal human experience of war. “For 10 years we told the west how dangerous it is to have a dictatorship in the biggest country, which has nuclear weapons and an army and empire ambitions, but business interests were more important,” she said, adding that she thought if sanctions had been imposed after the invasion of the Crimea in 2014, “thereShe said that it was a “dark time” for artists and activists in Russia, with repression “now at a level none of us have seen before” and prosecutions happening daily for crimes such as...
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