The play, based on the book “Agatha Returns Home” by the writer Linor Goralik (known as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation), was replaced by another production. This was reported by Theater Studio Laboratory “TesLa”. “In contact”.
The production was supposed to take place in Vologda on February 24. Instead, Anastasia Vavilova’s project “I Want to Be” will be staged. According to TeSL, the performance was canceled because the actual material was produced by a foreign agency. The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation added Linor Goralik to the list of foreign agents in August 2023.
8 May 2023 author excluded Following the protest of Ukrainian poets Anna Gruver and Olena Huseynova, international literature left the Prima Vista program.
The festival’s president, Christa Aru, explained the writer’s exclusion by saying “the tension between foreign guests needs to be reduced.”
Poet Olena Guseinova said that currently “it is impossible to discuss problems related to Russian culture”, so she was against Goralik’s speech. Moreover, Guseinova believes that the author’s online publication “ROAR – Bulletin of Opposition Russian-Speaking Culture” protects Russian speakers.
Previously Rare Russian books began to be stolen en masse from German libraries.