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![M_Simonyan Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::57315004.png) Margarita Simonyan [@M_Simonyan](/creator/twitter/M_Simonyan) on x 574.8K followers
Created: 2025-07-21 10:58:24 UTC

This week's performance of Tchaikovsky and Verdi in Italy, conducted by the Russian great Valery Gergiev has been canceled after a Ukrainian mass complaint campaign.

Culture minister Alessandro Giuli, whose favorite religious order must be the Jesuits, said "art is free and cannot be censored" but "propaganda, even when done with talent is another matter."

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