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Kalyagin: The post of head of the STD had to leave after the pressure of the AP
The head of the Union of Theater Workers, Alexander Kalyagin, said that the head of the Presidential Administration Department Sergei Novikov demanded to resign from him. Kalyagin announced this in a letter addressed to the head of the presidential administration Anton Vaino. A photocopy of letters from November 24 publishes a Briefing Telegram channel.
According to Kalyagin, Novikov accused him of insufficient loyalty to the authorities. In a letter, Kalyagin said that Novikov demands from him until December 4 to hold a congress of the Union of Theater Workers and resign in exchange for the Order and financing of the Golden Mask Prize. "Novikov announced a consensus in the power to replace my replacement," the letter says .
In addition, Kalyagin mentioned that if he refused to leave the post of head of the STD, Novikov threatened him with criminal prosecution.
An extraordinary congress of the Union of Theater Workers, at which Kalyagin resigned his powers of the chairman on December 4. The new chairman was elected actor and director Vladimir Mashkov. The vote was non -alternative. Initially, four more candidates were expected in voting ballots: the General Director of the Bolshoi and artistic director of Mariinsky Theaters Valery Gergiev, People's Artist of Russia Andrei Borisov, Director of the theater of Vakhtangov Kirill Krok and People's Artist of Russia Alexander Lazarev. The candidacy of Lazarev was nominated by Kalyagin himself. However, closer to the vote, they all announced self -expression.
Mashkov repeatedly announced the support of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in 2018 he was his confidant in the elections. In 2020, he was a member of the Constitution Commission. He supported the full -scale military invasion of Russia in Ukraine, in March 2022 he performed at a concert in honor of the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea on Red Square. Mashkova’s daughter, who lives in the United States, reported that her father accused her of “betrayal” for anti -war statements.