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В Washington Post вышла большая статья о состояние российской культуры: как власти борятся с икономылием и насаждают патриотизм. Я также дал небольшой комментарий по этому поводу. “The theaters themselves all of a sudden rushed to sign nonaggression pacts with the likes of the prosecutor general’s office, seeking immunity, staging plays for the soldiers and their kids,” said Nikita Betekhtin, a prominent Russian director who compiled a list of dozens of theaters that put the military’s Z symbol on their facades and playbills to cater to the authorities. In 2022, the Yermolova Theater company in Moscow boasted on its website that it had signed an agreement “on mutual creative cooperation” with the Investigative Committee, Russia’s most powerful law enforcement body. Betekhtin departed Russia in May 2022 after two of his plays were canceled; he now directs plays in Berlin. “Center E and FSB are incompatible with culture, but as they try to control it, we see all these Kafkaesque processes,” he said. Пересказ статьи на русский язык опубликовало издание "Холод".