In Vladivostok, before Putin’s arrival, the reading of the play about the collapse of the USSR was canceled

In Vladivostok, during the Eastern Economic Forum, which is expected to be attended by Vladimir Putin, the reading of a play about the collapse of the USSR was canceled. About it informs edition “Theater”.

Reading the play by playwright Mikhail Durnenkov “How Estonian Hippies Destroyed the Soviet Union” should have to be held at the Primorsky Youth Theater on September 2. According to a Teatr source, the performance was canceled on the eve of the president’s arrival, “by a call from the Ministry of Culture and Archives of the Primorsky Territory.”

Former head of the Primorye Department of Culture Sergey Matlin confirmed information on Facebook. According to him, officials did not have the right to ban the reading of the play, since “this production certainly does not fall under the state assignment, which means it is not financed from the budget.” “On Thursday with her readings, the theater was going to open a new season. Now, as I understand it, the creative team sits and flows around … Disgusting and disgusting … This is exactly what is called “Spanish shame,” “he said.

The artistic director of the Primorsky Youth Theater Lydia Vasilenko did not comment on the cancellation of the performance and wrote to Facebook only that is “at a loss” about this. The theater’s social networks also reported about the postponement of the events planned for the opening of the season to the next week under the pretext that “on the evening of September 2, a big celebration will take place on the central square of the city.”

The play “How Estonian Hippies Destroyed the Soviet Union” is in the repertoire of the Moscow Center. Meyerhold. On the staging page indicatedthat it was created with funds from the Presidential Grants Fund. In the announcement of the performance on the page of the Primorsky Youth Theater it saysthat the play is dedicated to “six young friends, whose fates are intertwined in a comic and tragic way in a single impulse – to resist the state system.”

The Eastern Economic Forum will be held from 2 to 4 September on the campus of the Far Eastern Federal University. The day before, on September 1, Putin flew to Vladivostok. Deputy Prime Minister, Plenipotentiary of the President in the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev spokethat this year the president will participate in the forum in a new format.

In 2005, Putin for the first time named collapse of the USSR “the largest geopolitical catastrophe” of the XX century. Tens of millions of people found themselves outside the country, which was a real drama for the people, he said. Ten years later, in January 2016, the president laid the blame for the collapse of the Soviet Union to Lenin, who, in his words, “planted an atomic bomb under Russia”: “A mine was laid under the building of our statehood. <...> And we did not need a world revolution ”.