Putin’s friend Gergiev began his performance when Italy broke the prohibition of professional Kremlin artists.

Russian conductor Valery Gergiev was banned at the European stage after Ukraine’s full invasion.

The directors of Vladimir Putin, the nearest allies of Vladimir Putin, were not opposed to war.

However, southern Italy has now invited Gergiev to Europe, signing an artist’s rehabilitation even if the attack on Ukraine in Russia is strengthened.

Vincenzo de Luca, which runs the Campania region, claims the concert of the UN ‘Sestate da re. At the end of this month, the festival will continue despite the growing criticism.

“Culture… It should not be influenced by political and political logic,” De Luca said in livestock on Friday. “We do not ask these people to answer the politicians’ choices.”

The 76-year-old local leader called Europe’s extensive rejection of professional putin artists at the beginning of the war, “the moment of madness-madness,” and proudly welcomed Gergiev to the village.

But PINA PICIERNO, vice president of the European parliament, said that allowing the BBC to return Gergiev.

She calls the star conductor “a cultural mouse piece and his crime for Putin.”

The Ukrainian human rights activist and Nobel Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk said that the invitation of the local government is “hypocrisy” rather than neutral.

Russian opposition activists also criticized the director’s sudden return. The anti -corruption foundation of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny wants the concert to be canceled and demands the Italian intervention.

Before the Russian war in Ukraine, Virtuoso Gergiev regularly visited the stages of Italy and Europe despite intimacy with Putin.

His long and wonderful career includes odors from London Symphony Orchestra and Munich Philharmonic.

But the invitation to Europe suddenly stopped on February 24, 2022.

A few hours before the beginning of the first Russian missile in Ukraine, Gergiev was on stage at Milan’s La Scala Opera House. At that time, Gergiev chose silence, urging the city’s market to speak against war.

He immediately fell from the bill.

Despite his called “The largest conductor Alive”, which was abandoned by his manager, he was fired as the best conductor of Munich and was removed from the concert schedule throughout the continent.

That’s why Italy invitation is controversial.

PINA PICIERNO, a Campania region, says that the call to stop the event is not Russophobic.

“There is no shortage of brilliant Russian artists who chose to separate themselves from Putin’s criminal policy,” she told the BBC.

The European MP, which said that she was threatened with the Russian hybrid war, warned that it would be wrong and dangerous for GergieV to perform.

“This is not about censorship. Gergiev is part of a deliberate Kremlin strategy. He is one of the cultural envoys that alleviate the Western public opinion. This is part of their war.”

The cultural debate exploded in a week to host the national team throughout Europe, reaffirming its support for Ukraine and discussing how to rebuild the state after the war.

Giorgia Meloni Italian Prime Minister was a powerful and consistent critic of Vladimir Putin from the beginning. But her cultural ministry UnessState da re.

The senior MP of Alfredo Antoniozzi, the brother of Melony’s Italian party, described Gergiev as “simply a great artist.”

“If the Russians have to pay the president’s mistake, we are committing a kind of cultural massacre,” he insisted.

Last month, Canada officially declared Gergiev and banned assets.

However, the European Union has moved away from the official sanctions of the conductor who avoided public support for war.

Gergiev has been a vocal supporter of President Putin since the 1990s and later campaigned for his re -election and supported Russia’s illegal mergers.

In addition to the executives of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and the Mariinski Theater, he also acquired from the director who signed a public letter about the Russian war.

Gergiev is a state employee, but in 2022, Alexei Navalny’s team’s investigation has not been declared in several Italian cities.

They also insisted that they paid their gorgeous lifestyles using donations to charity funds.

The activists insisted that it was Gergiev’s reward for the public’s loyalty to President Putin.

The BBC has not been able to reach a conductor to comment.

EVA HRNCIROVA spokesman for the European Commission clearly stated that Unestate da Re Festival does not receive EU cash.

But she added to the European stage, “urged the artists who support the Ukraine’s invasion war not to give space.”

In Campania, the art director who produced the festival program this year refused to comment. The spokesman, however, was convinced that Gergiev’s performance would continue despite the controversy.

“Yes,” he was convinced of the BBC. “surely.”

Additional report of ROME in Davide Ghiglione.