"Political cowardice": Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov told about the discharge from the management of a festival to France

The Russian conductor and the violinist Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov, the national actor of the USSR, commented on the discharge from the management of the International musical festival in Colmar which he headed more than 30 years. The actor declared that all negotiations were conducted behind his back, and organizers did not contact at all personally, having sent him the unsigned letter full of vague formulations. He called this decision "aspiration to fit into the general trend on abolition of all Russian culture". Federal state unitary enterprise RAMI "RIA Novosti" © Vyatkin Vladimir the Soviet and Russian conductor Vladimir Teodorovich Spivakov told that feels betrayed after that...