Russia’s war in Ukraine. Russia: Actor in Ulan-Ude (Buryatia) Artur Shuvalov cuts his veins on stage

And according to what was reported by the Astra channel on Wednesday on Telegram, the actor of the Russian Drama Theater who goes by the name of Alexander Bestuzhev addressed the viewers from the stage, explaining that the latest harassment was the dismissal of his wife, who is also a stage actress.

Shuvalov He addressed the audience and snapped his wrists as the actors came out to applaud. The actor said that he was pressured for a year, deprived of his salary and tried to fire him, and on that day his wife, actress Svetlana Polanskaya, was also fired. This was related to the actors’ demands that its former artistic director, Sergei Levitsky, who had been sacked a year earlier for his anti-war views, return to the theatre.

As a sign of protest, the artists removed a poster from the building inciting war against Ukraine. They also wrote complaints about the new artistic director Vyacheslav Dyachinka, who called the actors “actors of the older profession.” They also appealed to the media to intervene, but to no avail.

As reported by Radio Swoboda,

Shuvalov is in the hospital.

Ulan-Ude is the main city of Buryatia, a young republic in the Russian Federation that borders Mongolia. Residents of Buryatia, like representatives of other national minorities and peripheral regions of Russia, were sent to battles in Ukraine much more often than Russians from large cities of European Russia.

source:
PAP, Radio Svoboda

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