Russia’s War in Ukraine Russia: Actor Arthur Shuvalov cuts his nerves on stage in Ulan Ude (Buryatia)

As reported by the Astra channel on Telegram on Wednesday, the actor of the Russian theater named after Alexander Pestushev addressed the audience from the stage and announced that the last harassment was his wife and the actress of the theater was fired.

Shuvalov He addressed the audience and slashed his wrists as the cast came out to applause. The actor said that for a year he was pressured, deprived of salary and tried to get fired, and that day his wife and actress Svetlana Polanskaya were fired. It is related to the actors’ demand that its former artistic director, Sergei Levitsky, who was fired a year ago for his anti-war views, return to the theater.

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

As reported by Radio Svoboda,

Shuvalov is in the hospital.

Ulan-Ude is the main city of Buryatia, located on the border of the emerging republic of the Russian Federation and Mongolia. Residents of Buryatia, like other national minorities and representatives of Russia’s peripheral regions, were sent to fight in Ukraine more often than ethnic Russians from the big cities of European Russia.

Source:
PAP, Radio Svoboda

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