{"id":1345750,"date":"2022-02-26T16:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T21:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1345750"},"modified":"2022-02-26T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T21:38:13","slug":"russian-celebrities-risk-exposure-ban-to-protest-ukraine-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-celebrities-risk-exposure-ban-to-protest-ukraine-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Celebrities Risk Exposure Ban to Protest Ukraine Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussian-celebrities-risk-exposure-ban-to-protest-ukraine-invasion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1345750&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Final-Draw-for-the-2018-FIFA-World-Cup-Russia-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Several Russian celebrities \u2014\u00a0who operate within Russia\u2019s largely state-owned entertainment industry \u2014 risked a potential exposure ban by state media this week through their public protest against Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, <em>Fortune<\/em> magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/02\/24\/russian-celebrities-risk-career-putin-attacks-ukraine\/?utm_source=Iterable&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Fortune_Alerts_RussiaUkraine_022422&#038;tpcc=crmspotlight\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia\u2019s entertainment industry is largely state-owned, and while no celebrities have criticized [Russian President Vladimir] Putin by name, their outcry could lead to bans from any exposure on state media,\u201d the business-focused magazine observed on February 24.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Russian pop star Valery Meladze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CaWj5NCl-9k\/\">denounced<\/a> Russia\u2019s military aggression in Ukraine through a video message he shared with his 50,000 Instagram followers on February 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday something happened that could and should never have happened. History will judge everything one day. Now I want to beg you to stop military action and sit down to negotiate,\u201d Meladze said in the video clip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFear and pain. NO to war,\u201d Russian television host and comedian Ivan Urgant (above, left)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CaWv16jAvPE\/\">wrote<\/a> in a caption accompanying a black square posted to his Instagram account on Thursday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are now all trapped in this situation. There is no exit. We Russians will spend many years digging out from the consequences of this day,\u201d Russian television presenter Ksenia Sobchak wrote in a post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CaWl2CiMRWN\/\">shared<\/a> on her Instagram account on February 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome figures in Russia\u2019s cultural scene have gone as far as to preemptively quit their jobs as a sign of protest,\u201d\u00a0<em>Fortune<\/em>, which is based out of New York City, reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine cited the example of\u00a0Yelena Kovalskaya, the director of the Russian state-owned Meyerhold Theater Center in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Kovalskaya announced her resignation through a statement shared on her Facebook page on February 24, writing, \u201cIt is impossible to work for a murderer and receive salary from him. I will finish the work I\u2019ve started, but without pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Meyerhold Theatre is one of several state-run theaters in Russia, many of which were inherited from the Soviet Union (although the Meyerhold was established in 1999). The state provides almost all of the funding, with artistic staff and actors as employees on payroll,\u201d the website theatermania.com <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/new-york-city-theater\/news\/artistic-director-of-moscows-meyerhold-theatre-res_93409.html\">noted<\/a> on February 25.<\/p>\n<p>Kovalskaya\u2019s resignation via Facebook, a U.S.-based social media platform, came one day before Russia\u2019s government <a href=\"https:\/\/rkn.gov.ru\/news\/rsoc\/news74108.htm\">announced<\/a> on February 25 it would \u201cpartially restrict access\u201d to Facebook within Russia in response to the platform\u2019s censoring of Russian state media.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) said it made the choice in response to Facebook\u2019s decision on February 24 to impose restrictions on four Facebook accounts run by the following Russian state media outlets: \u201cZvezda TV channel, the RIA Novosti news agency, and the Lenta.ru and Gazeta.ru Internet sites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch actions in relation to Russian Internet resources and the media are prohibited by Federal Law No. 272-FZ \u2018On Measures to Influence Persons Involved in Violations of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms, Rights and Freedoms of Citizens of the Russian Federation,&#8217;\u201d a statement issued by Roskomnadzor on Friday read.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s military <a href=\"https:\/\/graphics.reuters.com\/UKRAINE-CRISIS\/zdpxokdxzvx\/\">invaded<\/a> Ukraine in the early morning hours of February 24 following an announcement on February 21 by Moscow that the Kremlin would officially <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1407581\">recognize<\/a> two Russian-backed separatist states in eastern Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several Russian celebrities \u2014\u00a0who operate within Russia\u2019s largely state-owned entertainment industry \u2014 risked a potential exposure ban by state media this week through their public protest against Russia\u2019s invasion of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}