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🎙 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question to a media question on cancelling ballet performances The Swan Lake and The Nutcracker in Sweden

❓ Question: How could you comment on reports about cancelling ballet performances The Swan Lake and The Nutcracker in Sweden because the company organising these events allegedly has ties to Russia?

💬 Maria Zakharova: It is hard to assess the decisions and actions of Swedish authorities in the context of universal human logic and common sense. In October 2022, the Swedish Foreign Ministry, where Russophobic moods have been cultivated for a long time, instructed Swedish institutions to terminate all contacts regarding cultural collaboration with Russian and Belarusian state agencies.

Private Swedish commercial concert companies followed in the wake of official Swedish institutions and embarked on the dubious road of cancelling all things Russian. For example, they cancelled classical Russian ballet performances The Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, scheduled for the winter - summer period of 2025.

The fact that a purely commercial agency organised the Swedish tour of an international composition of this ballet troupe did not serve as a weighty argument for Swedish partners and did not induce them to honour their obligations. Everything is insufferably trite: All things Russian should be banned, cancelled and thwarted.

❗️ Authorities in Stockholm responsible for adopting these decisions do not realise the simple truth: Instead of cancelling the great Russian art, an inalienable part of the global cultural heritage, they are depriving Swedish citizens of an opportunity to become acquainted with textbook examples of Russian ballet, and they are removing the Swedish Kingdom from the map of the most significant and topical cultural and artistic events, as evidenced by this case.

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🎙 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question to a media question on cancelling ballet performances The Swan Lake and The Nutcracker in Sweden

❓ Question: How could you comment on reports about cancelling ballet performances The Swan Lake and The Nutcracker in Sweden because the company organising these events allegedly has ties to Russia?

💬 Maria Zakharova: It is hard to assess the decisions and actions of Swedish authorities in the context of universal human logic and common sense. In October 2022, the Swedish Foreign Ministry, where Russophobic moods have been cultivated for a long time, instructed Swedish institutions to terminate all contacts regarding cultural collaboration with Russian and Belarusian state agencies.

Private Swedish commercial concert companies followed in the wake of official Swedish institutions and embarked on the dubious road of cancelling all things Russian. For example, they cancelled classical Russian ballet performances The Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, scheduled for the winter - summer period of 2025.

The fact that a purely commercial agency organised the Swedish tour of an international composition of this ballet troupe did not serve as a weighty argument for Swedish partners and did not induce them to honour their obligations. Everything is insufferably trite: All things Russian should be banned, cancelled and thwarted.

❗️ Authorities in Stockholm responsible for adopting these decisions do not realise the simple truth: Instead of cancelling the great Russian art, an inalienable part of the global cultural heritage, they are depriving Swedish citizens of an opportunity to become acquainted with textbook examples of Russian ballet, and they are removing the Swedish Kingdom from the map of the most significant and topical cultural and artistic events, as evidenced by this case.

BY Russian Delegation to UNESCO