Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov reacted on the Telegram channel to the removal of the Nureyev ballet from the Bolshoi Theater repertoire.
According to Serebrennikov, the law that caused the abandonment of performance concerned production. “The law” was specifically opposed to this performance and a few books… Well, okay…” he said.
Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation April 19 approved Order of Roskomnadzor on the criteria for determining “LGBT propaganda”, which was completely prohibited by law in November 2022. According to the document, the reason for the closure of the sites will be the publication of materials that will contain “the interlocutor’s opinion that sexual intercourse with minors is permissible and attractive”, “attractiveness of non-traditional sexual relations”, “information for creation”. a distorted idea of the social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional sexual relations “as well as information that justifies the rejection of traditional relations”.
In addition, sources that disseminate information that constitute a “positive attitude towards gender change” will also be included in the banned list.
In the spring of 2022, the ballet A Hero of Our Time disappeared from the Bolshoi Theater repertoire. Soon Nureyev also disappeared from the poster. On April 19, 2023, theatrical director Vladimir Urin announced the definitive exclusion of Nureyev from the theatrical repertoire and announced this is a decision of the LGBT propaganda law, which prohibits “propaganda of non-traditional values”.