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“Philosopher Grigory Yudin was beaten by the police and taken unconscious to the Yuzhnoye Medvedkovo police station,” reports activist Dasha Serenko. Later he was transported to the Research Institute of Emergency Medicine named after. Sklifosovsky.
Director Yuri Shekhvatov was detained at the evening rally.
Theater.doc issued a statement against the war: https://www.facebook.com/186454478055992/posts/5249828181718571/
A group of Russian intellectuals and writers came out in support of Ukraine, the list is growing: https://www.facebook.com/1557371698/posts/10227071908974443/
Director of the Moscow Center named after. Meyerhold Elena Kovalskaya wrote that she was resigning from her position in protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Senior curators of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Valentin Dyakonov and Snezhana Krasteva, made an anti-war statement and called not to organize a boycott of Russian cultural institutions, because art in such a situation is an opportunity for dialogue.
Marina Davydova, editor-in-chief of the Theater magazine and art director of the NET festival (New European Theatre), calls on all theater workers to collect signatures calling for an urgent end to hostilities on the territory of a neighboring state.
Lazy Mike Gallery has canceled the opening day of the Wild Wild World exhibition indefinitely. “To ignore what is happening around us is to condone the fascist regime,” the gallery said in a statement.
Playwright Asya Voloshina made a radical statement, announcing on social networks that she was beginning to collect documents to renounce Russian citizenship. “I don’t have anything else (anticipating questions),” she added.
Composer Alexander Manotskov went to Pushkin Square with a single picket, writing on a poster “War is a crime. Article 353 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.” "I can not wait. #I'm coming out,” he posted on Facebook.
Director Zhenya Berkovich, who went out with a solo anti-war picket this morning, was detained and is in the police department.
Milan's La Scala theater demanded that Russian conductor Valery Gergiev clearly define his position and oppose Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Otherwise, the theater will interrupt cooperation with the conductor.
Representatives of Russian show business Valery Meladze, Maxim Galkin, TV presenters Ivan Urgant and Alexander Gudkov spoke out against the war.
(Material being added)