{"id":285720,"date":"2025-07-23T17:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285720\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:14:12","slug":"get-the-violins-out-russia-slams-italy-for-canceling-pro-putin-conductors-concert-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/285720\/","title":{"rendered":"Get the violins out! Russia slams Italy for canceling pro-Putin conductor\u2019s concert \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, however, the Reggia di Caserta canceled the event<\/a>. The decision came amid mounting criticism from Italian politicians, MEPs, and Ukrainian and anti-Kremlin activists, who condemned Gergiev<\/a>\u2019s well-documented support for warmongering Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is not just a simple conductor, as some continue to claim. He is a figure entirely embedded in the Kremlin\u2019s criminal regime, he\u2019s a pawn of that regime, a sort of personal ambassador of Putin in the world of culture,\u201d European Parliament Vice President Pina Picierno, a member of Italy\u2019s center-left Democratic Party (PD), told POLITICO.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis guy has no right to have the podium in Europe. He lobbies for the war against Ukraine,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s Deputy Culture Minister Andrii Nadzhos told POLITICO, adding that Kyiv considers Gergiev \u201cguilty\u201d in the conflict.<\/p>\n

Since being removed from Milan\u2019s La Scala<\/a> in 2022 for refusing to publicly distance himself from the Kremlin and denounce Moscow\u2019s war in Ukraine, Gergiev has become a symbol of the increasingly blurred lines between Russia\u2019s artistic heritage and state-sponsored propaganda.<\/p>\n

The Reggia di Caserta has not yet announced which performer will replace Gergiev in the concert originally planned for Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday, however, the Reggia di Caserta canceled the event. The decision came amid mounting criticism from Italian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[2199,660,11582,269,106853,332,18111,657,333,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-285720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-italy","9":"tag-kremlin","10":"tag-lobbying","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-pina-picierno","13":"tag-russia","14":"tag-society-and-culture","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-vladimir-putin","17":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114903676615504095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}