Tchaikovsky’s Home Destroyed By Russian Occupation In Ukraine
In Italy, a university course on Fyodor Dostoevsky – the 19th century novelist who spent years in exile for defying the Russian state – was withdrawn before getting reinstated soon after backlash. While Gergiev and Netrebko are prominent supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin and declined to publicly criticise him, even apolitical artists have faced the axe from Western cultural institutions. Russian films have been barred from festivals in Toronto and Glasgow, even though Hollywood films from Disney, Warner Brothers…