The theater refused to provide a venue for the play "Notes of Madmen" Russian director Dmitry Krymov.
The Latvian National Theater has banned performances in Russian – while the war is going on 60~ /strong> aggressors of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.
This is reported by Delfi with reference to the director of the National Theater Maris Vitols.
“The stage of the National Theater is not the right place for a Russian-language tour at a time when Russia continues the war in Ukraine, unleashed by the bloody Putin regime,” said Māris Vitols.
The theater refused to provide a venue for the play “Notes of Madmen” by Russian director Dmitry Krymov. The main roles in the play are played by actors Chulpan Khamatova and Maxim Sukhanov, who left the Russian Federation after a full-scale invasion.
The lease agreement for the tour site was signed back in the winter. Now the administration has said that the decision “caused indignation among some of the public.” That is why the Latvian National Theater banned tours at its venues to end the war in Ukraine.
“This decision of the theater is in no way directed against professional theater artists who left Russia after the start of the war, and respects their choice to leave and condemn Putin’s criminal regime,” Vitols emphasized.
As reported, Latvia plans to abandon Russian as a second foreign language in schools. With new changes, from the 2026/2027 academic year, schools will have to gradually offer students one of the official languages of the EU or member states as a second foreign language.
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