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Ruben Babayan. “Cultural workers supporting Putin will later provide explanations.”

March 14,2014 18:10

“Not all cultural workers are supporting. I know, for instances, that a popular and my favorite writer Andrey Bitov is not absolutely supporting Putin, and, by the way, recently a list was published where there are well-known writers, and film directors, who are against his actions. Unfortunately, from time to time, the history is repeated in Russia, and later the same cultural workers, who are supporting the government, and when the country’s situation is changing, they begin providing various explanations as to why they signed underneath this shameful letters,” said Ruben Babayan, Artistic Director of Yerevan Puppet Theater after Hovhannes Tumanyan, in the conversation with Aravot.am, responding to the questions of what he is thinking about the fact that the cultural workers of Russia are supporting Putin’s steps in the Crimea. Ruben Babayan noted that, in his opinion, the cultural workers should first think about building bridges with the people, and if he is a cultural worker, first he needs to advocate philanthropy, and when he supports such actions, he does the opposite and there could be no excuse here. “I went over the list of people who are supporting Putin and there are just a lot of officials there, and it’s hard to call them cultural workers since there are directors of concert or theater halls. The intellectual first and foremost is a free person who has commitment only for its own conscience, however, we often we see the opposite picture that they obtain freedom for their conscience, but for other issues they feel reserved, whereas this is not the intellectual, and it absolutely does not refer to their passed way. And if I saw Spivakov’s name in the list, it does not mean that I began respecting the actions less, in terms of purely musical, that he does, however, something is definitely leaving a bad trace,” added Ruben Babayan.

Eva HAKOBYAN

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