The Russian director of the Bavarian State Ballet, Igor Zelensky, is resigning. About the backgrounds.
If he wanted to keep world politics away from his ensemble with his silence, if he wanted to prevent the conflict in Ukraine from overshadowing the ballet festival week that just ended, then Igor Zelensky’s strategy didn’t work out. Because of course the audience, the media and cultural politicians asked how the director of the Bavarian State Ballet felt about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the man who ordered it, Vladimir Putin. Igor Zelensky, 52, did not comment and showed little.