The Moscow Theater canceled performances based on Akunin’s works
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The Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT) removed all performances based on the works of Boris Akunin from the repertoire. This was reported by RIA “Novosti” with reference to the press attaché of the theater.
Telegram channel SHOT connects the cancellation of performances with “public complaints”. Now RAMT will not show the performances “Erast Fandorin”, “Yin and Yang. White version” and “Yin and Yang. Black version”.
On Tuesday, December 26, a message appeared on the theater’s website about changes in the repertoire: the performance “Yin and Yang. Black version”, which was supposed to take place on January 3, was replaced by the performance “Chekhov-GALA”; the play “Erastus Fandorin” was replaced by the play “Flowers for Algernon”.
On December 18, it became known that a criminal case was opened against the writer on two counts: “fakes” about the Russian army and public justification of terrorism. On the same day, Rosfinmonitoring added Akunin to the register of terrorists and extremists.
Earlier, one of the largest Russian publishing houses, AST, announced that it had “suspended” the distribution of books by writers Boris Akunin and Dmitry Bykov. In the statement on behalf of the director general of the publishing house, Pavlo Hryshkov, it is stated that certain “public statements of writers” “caused a wide public outcry” and “require a legal assessment.” In addition, books by Akunin and Bykov were withdrawn from sale in a number of bookstores and retail chains.
By “public statements”, in all probability, we mean the remarks of Akunin and Bykov about the war in their recent conversations with pro-Kremlin pranksters Lexus and Vovan (Alexei Stolyarov and Vladimir Kuznetsov). Prankers spoke with writers, pretending to be Ukrainian officials. In conversations with them, Bykov and Akunin confirmed their anti-war position, expressed support for Ukraine and condemned the Russian authorities. Numerous pro-Kremlin mass media and Telegram channels accused the writers of “treason” after publishing fragments of the conversations.
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