Tania Z

I am not proposing violence as you mentioned in your comment, just seen this topic and voiced my opinion. I can, can't I? Sergey Polunin for example, very talented russian ballet dancer - he has 3 portraits of putin on his chest. That pretty clear message on what side he is. Everyone makes their moral choice whether to attend russians shows or not.

Fiona, yes you are absolutely right, the main question is to their promoters / organisers. That's what we are currently trying to find out. Ms Nerubashenko lived in Moscow for decades, and mysteriously started promoting her Ukrainian background after February 2022, just wiping out previous russian links. Hmm let me guess why...

You are right, because what their country is doing to Ukraine, bombing and shelling civilians every day, russians nowadays are not welcomed in civilised world. So Nerubashenko ballet quickly rebranded themselves by concealing all links to russia. The majority of russian population is in support of war, so let them stay inside their country and not enjoy the freedom and make money. Unfortunately some people are indifferent or they just been mislead, so they buy tickets by which they indirectly support the war.

From what I managed to find out from the net, Marina Medvetskaya was / is artistic director of St Petersburg ballet theatre. Interestingly, before February 2022, when they was touring across the UK, the main emphasis of their promoter was to point out that she is connected to russian ballet. Now of course, there is no mention of this on any website. Instead they point out she is of Georgian origin. They are fouling public. Understandably people aren't going to do any research, so they buy tickets by which they indirectly support war in Ukraine ((

Yes, that's exactly what should happen. The vast majority of russians support the war so why they should come to Europe to enjoy the freedom and make money, paying taxes from it to subside putin's regime?