"Russia squeezed out of all who wanted nothing but good for its culture." The head of the Contemporary Art Department of the Hermitage left the Russian Federation

Dmitry Ozerkov, who headed the Modern Art Department, left his post and left the country. He explained his decision by the fact that he did not want to "have anything to do with today's Russia." Ozerkov’s post in English is published on his Instagram page, here is his fragment:

“After Russia introduced its troops into Ukraine, dialogue and respect ceased to mean anything in Russia, the news was replaced by propaganda, which did not say anything about the prosecution of the Russian armed forces of numerous crimes against the civilian population. As a citizen of Russia, I saw in this shame and my guilt. Then I chose to stop doing anything in today's Russia and for it. He left the posts of the head of the A& S University of ITMO, the curator of Zifergauz, the curator of MastersDigital and other local projects. I left the City Council on culture under the governor of St. Petersburg.

I welcome everyone for whom the Greek word, the outcome used by the authors of Septuagint has become the only possible way out of this situation. Russia squeezed out of all of us who did not want anything but good for its culture. ”

In the post of Ozerkov, it is noted that he decided to leave after the war began, but the final decision was made after the publication of the interview with the General Director of the museum.

In June, the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky in an interview said that with the help of war in Ukraine, Russia is committing "great global transformations", and war is "self -affirmation of people, self -affirmation of the nation."

“We retreated, retreated, now we are not retreating. The turn is made. And it is already clear that the final. Everything was started in 2014 in the Crimea. Crimea created a situation when it was already impossible in another way, it was necessary to unfold, ”said Piotrovsky.

An interview with Piotrovsky was published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta under the heading “Why is it necessary to be with its country when it makes a historical turn and choice”.