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Boris Grebenshchikov: Culture and protest in Russia

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Are You Worried About a Demonisation of Russian Artists?

Polish national opera cancelled a production of Musogorskis Boris Godinov because they were worried that the kind of message it would give. We've seen a pianist Alexander Malofiev saw his debut in Canada cancelled simply because he was Russian. Are you worried about a demonisation of Russian artists? You see, I never worry about stupidity because it can be healed. So we need culture even though the war is raging. And we need more and more of it. To make us cultured to make us better. Which is needed in times of war as much as it needed in any other time.

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