Satyriconarmey blades

Constant checks in the Satyrikon Theater and the delay in the reconstruction of its building are associated with the personal revenge of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. This was stated by the artistic director of the theater Konstantin Raikin, reports "Rain".

“This is revenge and the punishment that my immediate supervisor of culture Vladimir Medinsky wants to subject me and my theater. He cannot forgive me for my statement at the Congress of the Cois of Theater Workers and the fact that I traced him several times and fought against his unjust decisions regarding the Satyricon theater,” Raikin said.

For a year, the prosecutor's office came to the theater six times with checks, Raikin noted. He regards this as an “official attempt to“ intimidate Satyricon ”. According to Raikin, Medinsky is also trying to stop the reconstruction of the theater building. Construction was supposed to be completed in 2016, then it was postponed to 2017, now - at the end of 2018.

On October 24, 2016, speaking at the 7th Congress of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia, Raikin called "ugly encroachment on the freedom of creativity" Closing a number of performances and exhibitions. The artist announced the repeated "raids for art." He expressed concern in that the authorities neutrally behave in relation to "groups of allegedly offended people who close the performances, close exhibitions, brazenly behave very much."

“The ban on censorship - I don’t know how someone treats this, but I think that this is the greatest event of a centuries -old significance in our life, in the artistic, spiritual life of our country,” Raikin said. “And what is happening now? I now see how the hands of someone are clearly scratching - it is to change and return it back not only during the time of stagnation, but in more old times - in Stalin's times.”

The next day, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that censorship in the field of art is unacceptable, but the authorities have the right to influence what is being created for public funds . "As such, censorship is unacceptable. This topic was discussed at the president’s meetings with representatives of the theater, cinema community. Censorship is unacceptable, but at the same time it is necessary to clearly differentiate those productions, those works that are placed or withdrawn for state money, and those that are removed with the involvement of any other sources of financing," Peskov said.

On October 29, Medinsky talked on the phone with Raikin, who was on tour in Novosibirsk. The head of the Ministry of Culture apologized "For insulting expressions and the tone of the first deputy minister of culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Aristarkhov, which he allowed himself to the Satyricon artistic director at a meeting in the Public Chamber on October 17, 2016," Bra, Medinsky, at a meeting with the director of Satyric, Anatoly Polyankin, came to the agreement on the issue of financing the theater.

“After a calm discussion and conversation between the Minister of Culture with Konstantin Arkadyevich, we all considered that the incident was exhausted and misunderstood,” said the deputy head of the Ministry of Culture Alexander Zhuravsky. “We agreed to calmly and without attracting the media to solve the issues that arise in working order.”