An appeal has been published by courageous musicians and cultural managers asking to end the war. The text is signed, among others, by Vladimir Urin, General Director of Moscow’s’ Bolshoi Theatre, violinist and conductor Vladimir Spivakov and Valery Fokin, Artistic Director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.
It reads: « We act now not only as cultural figures, but as ordinary people, citizens of our country, our Motherland. Among us are children and grandchildren of those who fought in the Great Patriotic War, witnesses and participants in that war.
The genetic memory of the war lives in all of us. We don’t want another war, we don’t want to see people die.
The past XXth century has brought too much grief and suffering to humanity. We want to believe that the twenty-first century will be a century of hope, of openness and dialogue, a century of human to human conversation, a century of love, compassion and mercy.
We call on all those on whom it depends, all parties to the conflict, to stop the hostilities, and to come to the negotiating table. We call for the preservation of the supreme value of human life. »
The signatories are:
Oleg BASILASHVILI
Mikhail BYCHKOV
Igor Zolotovitskyi
Igor Kostolevsky
Dmitry Krymov
Evgeny Mironov
Andrei Moguchy
Eugene PISAREV
Konstantin RAIKIN
Maria REVYAKINA
Victor RYZHAKOV
Yuri ROST
Vladimir SPIVAKOV
Vladimir URIN
Nina USATOVA
Valery FOKIN
Alyssa FREINDLICH
