Olga will get the same love from them. She's Russian.
Posted on 03/16/2022 11:21:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Paris (AFP) – Prima ballerina Olga Smirnova has quit the Bolshoi in Moscow to join the Dutch National Ballet, it was announced Wednesday, making her the first Russian to quit the fabled company over the war in Ukraine.
“Smirnova was outspoken in her recent denouncement of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which is making it untenable for her to work in her native country," the Dutch company said in a statement.
Smirnova is one of the biggest stars of the Bolshoi and had already expressed her opposition to the war on messaging app Telegram earlier this month.
"I am against war with all the fibres of my soul," she wrote.
"It is not only about every other Russian perhaps having relatives or friends living in Ukraine, or about my grandfather being Ukrainian... It is that we continue to live as if this were the 20th century."
Several foreigners have quit their positions in Russia since the invasion, but Smirnova is by far the biggest local star to leave.
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Ukrainian grandfather. My favorite performance was La Bayadère a few years back.
The Russians are an enigma.
Prior to 1917, their artists, writers and scientists contributed much to the world.
Now they’re mostly just a bunch of sheep being led by a gangster.
The TechnoDicktatership will cancel her anyway...
Olga will get the same love from them. She's Russian.
Can’t put up with the Bolshoi any longer...
Must be a Soros operative.
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