[Aaus-list] a list of Putin's arts supporters

[Walter Iwaskiw]

The list includes such luminaries as Valery Gergiev, who is godfather
to Vladimir Putin's daughter and who also supported the Russian
invasion of Georgia in 2008.

On March 10, Norman Lebrecht wrote about Gergiev in his Arts Journal blog:

"The conductor has given an avowedly patrotic, pro-Putin interview to
a Russian magazine in which he justified the intervention in Ukraine
and had this to say about the country's revolution: Сейчас мы слышим
откровенно фашистские лозунги. Они звучат на Украине из уст людей,
которые уже почти пришли там к полному контролю над страной.

In plain English: 'We are now hearing openly fascist slogans. They are
coming in Ukraine from people who have almost complete control over
the country.'

In other comments, he appears to be advocating a return to East-West
confrontation and repressive government:

'The Cold War continues.... In Russia and in China today there is a
desire not only to strengthen relations between the two countries, but
in general, to create a more balanced picture, balance of power
between East and West... China shows the world: attacks on them are
punished, and punished, especially economically. Tough,
uncompromising, ruthless, I would say, the principle is: you do not
want to be friends - we do not want to give you any opportunity to
grow rich at our expense.'

Interesting, considering that Gergiev's Mariinsky company is sustained
by income from the West. Must ask him about it some time."

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2014/03/valery-gergiev-the-people-who-run-ukraine-are-spouting-fascist-slogans.html


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