Director Rimas Tuminas died

The Soviet and Lithuanian theater director Rimas Tuminas died at the age of 72. This was announced by TASS was announced by the director of the Vakhtangov Theater Kirill Krok.

The director died in intensive care at the Italian clinic in the evening of March 6, Krok said. According to him, Tuminas died after a serious illness. In 2014, the director was diagnosed with lung cancer, LRT writes .

Rimas Tuminas was born in Kelm in 1952. Since 2007, he served as the art director of the Vakhtangov Theater.

Soon after a full -scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tuminas left Russia to Lithuania. The Vakhtangov Theater said that the reason for the departure of Tuminas was the state of health. In Lithuania, the director was criticized for a few more months after the start of the war he continued to work in Russia.

In May 2022, the director left the post of Khudruk of the Vakhtangov Theater. Before that, the prankers Vovan and Lexus (Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov) published a conversation in which Tuminas allegedly agreed to put a performance about Stepan Bandera in Ukraine. The director said that the record was mounted.

Soon after the dismissal of Tuminas, the theater removed several performances of the director from the show, and the Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin canceled the award for him for a significant contribution to the development of Russian culture.

In recent years, writes LRT, Tuminas lived in Israel.