In the Besogon TV program, Director Nikita Mikhalkov accused the employees of the Historical Museum in Yekaterinburg of mocking Orthodox symbols and the Russian Orthodox Church.
“Who gets the most sensitive museum work sometimes? [Cотрудник музея Петр Малков] He wears a sweater with Hitler’s swastika on it and seems very proud of it. “He supports Ukraine,” the director was also angry and posted a photo on Malkov’s personal social networks.
Additionally, Mikhalkov criticized another museum employee, Vyacheslav Chechenyak, who called the annexation of the Urals “Russian colonization”. The director complained that the idea that Russians colonized other regions was put forward within a single nation.
“They are injecting us, drop by drop, with the fact that we need to break up as a single country,” he said.
Mikhalkov in May in the name Shut down the Yeltsin Center over a cartoon depicting the history of Russia, where “all the filth, the abomination, the betrayal, the slavery, the horror, and the light in the window is the only one who comes and changes all that.” He described the animated film as “terrible”.
Formerly the Bolshoi Theater answered Requests to include screenings of the Nutcracker movie.