Writer Alexander SolzhenitsynMOSCOW, 21 Mar. The administration of the French department of the Vendée has received a petition demanding the renaming of a secondary school in Ezen, named after the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The relevant information was disseminated by the newspaper Le Figaro. Instead, it is proposed to perpetuate the memory of the Ukrainian revolutionary anarchist Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eisenbaum, who is known under the pseudonym Volin. petitions were considered more worthy. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a Nobel Prize winner in literature, visited the department in 1993 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Vendée uprising. A high school in Esen received his name in 2005 in honor of this visit, as well as the author's literary work. Russia Vladimir Putin on February 21, in response to the requests of the Donbass republics and after the appeal of the State Duma deputies, signed decrees recognizing the sovereignty of the LPR and the DPR. Early on the morning of February 24, Russia launched a military special operation to demilitarize Ukraine. Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» After the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine, the West began to «cancel» Russian culture and ties with Moscow. Western organizations refuse to cooperate with musicians from Russia. Thus, the Munich mayor's office terminated the contract with Valery Gergiev, the chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. The Bavarian State Opera refused to cooperate with both Gergiev and the opera singer Anna Netrebko. The Royal Theater Covent Garden in London has canceled the tour of the artists of the Bolshoi Theater.
