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Bolshoi Ballerina quits: 'I am against the war with every fiber of my soul '
Prima ballerina quits the Bolshoi over war in UkraineA leading Russian ballerina has quit the famed Bolshoi ballet in Moscow and joined the Dutch National ballet, after denouncing the war in Ukraine.
... The 30-year-old prima ballerina [Olga Smirnova] of the world-renowned Bolshoi Theatre had recently condemned the invasion of Ukraine ― where she has family— and said she was “ashamed of Russia.”
“I cannot but say that with every fiber of my soul I am against the war,” she said in a post on Telegram last week, according to British newspaper The Mirror. In the post she added her grandfather is Ukrainian and that she is “a quarter Ukrainian.”
“I never thought that I would be ashamed of Russia. I have always been proud of the talented Russian people, our cultural and sporting achievements. But now the line is drawn on the before and after.”
... The 30-year-old prima ballerina [Olga Smirnova] of the world-renowned Bolshoi Theatre had recently condemned the invasion of Ukraine ― where she has family— and said she was “ashamed of Russia.”
“I cannot but say that with every fiber of my soul I am against the war,” she said in a post on Telegram last week, according to British newspaper The Mirror. In the post she added her grandfather is Ukrainian and that she is “a quarter Ukrainian.”
“I never thought that I would be ashamed of Russia. I have always been proud of the talented Russian people, our cultural and sporting achievements. But now the line is drawn on the before and after.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/16/russia-ukraine-war-news-zelensky-live-updates/#link-ZAYHDBWXQBC2NKKSJNR332MDG4
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