Putin’s friend Gergiev sets to take over while Italy breaks down prohibition of pro-kremlin artists

Conductor Russian Valery Gergiev is prohibited from European periods since Ukraine’s total invasion.

A close ally of Vladimir Putin for many years, the Director of Bolshoi and Meiinsky Russian State Seaters have not said against the war.

But a region of southern Italy is now inviting Gergiev back to Europe, signing the artist rehabilitation despite Russian attack in Ukraine increased.

Vincenzo de Luca, running in the Campania region, insists that the Concert of Un’Estate Da Feast later this month will continue despite a growing blast of criticism.

“Culture … should not be influenced by political and political logic,” says De Luca in a livestream Friday. “We do not ask people to respond for choices made by politicians.”

The 76-year-old Local Leader has previously called Europe’s broad veto on pro-Putin artists “a moment of stupidity – a moment of madness” at the start of the war and announced that he was “proud” to welcome gergiev to town.

But Pina Piciernant, a vice-president of the European Parliament, tells the BBC allowing Gergiev’s return “completely unacceptable”.

He calls the Star Conductor a “culture spokesman for Putin and his crimes”.

Human human rights activist Olekandra Matviichukuk said the government’s invitation to the region is “hypocrisy”, instead of neyutrality.

Russian opposition activists also condemned the director’s sudden return. The foundation of anti-corruption, later opposition leader Alexei Navalny, wanted to be canceled by his concert and called the entrance to Italy forbidden the entrance to Gergiev in the country.

Before full-scale War in Russia in Ukraine, Virtuoso Gergiev is a regular visitors to the periods of Italy and throughout Europe, despite his closeness to Putin.

Her long and bad career includes the bowels of London Symphony Orchestra and Munich Philharmonic.

But Europe invitations stopped at 24 February 2022.

Hours before Russia’s first missiles were launched in Ukraine, Gergiev is on stage in Milan’s la scala opera house. The Mayor urged the town to speak against the war, Gergiev chose the silence.

He was then moved from the bill.

His manager left, despite the Gergieev call “The greatest conductor alive”, He was then shot as the principal conductor in Munich and taken from the schedules of concerts across the continent.

So the invitation from Italy is more controversial.

Pina Piciernant, from the Campania region, says his call to stop the activity not Russophobic.

“There was no shortage of brillant Russian artists who chose to overflow themselves from Putin’s criminal policies,” he told the BBC.

The European MP, saying he received threat for his work spreading the Hybrid battle in Russia, warned that Gergiev’s consent became evil and dangerous.

“It’s not about censorship. The Gergiev is part of a deliberate Kremlin strategy. He is one of their cultural words to soften their war.”

Cultural controversy is broken in a week when Italy hosts the state from across Europe to restore their support for Ukraine and discuss how the country is rebuilding in the event of war.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is a strong and steady critic of Vladimir Putin from the beginning. But his cultural ministry is one of those who reinstalls UN’Estate Da rev who invites Gergiev.

An older MP from Moneloni’s brothers in the Party of ITILII, Alfredo Antoniozzi, describes Gergiev as “simply a good artist”.

“If Russians have to pay for the mistakes of their President, then we have a kind of genocide culture,” he argues.

Last month, Canada formally defined Gergiev from entering and stated to freeze any assets.

But the European Union has gone away from formal sanctions against the conductor, avoiding the acquisition of open support for the war.

Gergiev is a Vocal Support in Putin since the 1990s, later campaigning for his Russian registration in Crimea in 2014.

He provided the Theater of the Bolshoi of Moscow, in addition to the Mariinsky Theater, taken from a director signing an open letter against Russian war.

Gergiev is a state employee, but in 2022 an investigation by Alexei Navalny’s team uncovered properties in several Italian cities that they say he never declared.

They also said he used donations to a generous fund to pay for his own life.

The activists argue that Gergiev’s reward for his public loyalty to Putin.

The BBC so far does not reach the conductor for comment.

A summiter’s commission of Europe, Eva Hrncirova, explains that the UN’Estate Da Re Re Festival does not receive EU cash in Italy.

But he added that the commission encouraged European episodes that do not provide space “to artists who support the war on the aggression of Ukraine”.

In Campania, the artistic director who creates this year’s program this year refuses to comment. A spokesman is confident of Germiev’s performance to continue, however – despite controversy.

“Yes,” he assured the BBC. “Sure.”

Further reporting from Rome by Davide Ghiglione.