{"id":1345920,"date":"2022-02-26T17:37:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T22:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1345920"},"modified":"2022-02-26T17:37:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T22:37:49","slug":"russian-stars-defy-kremlin-and-turn-on-putin-invading-ukraine-a-catastrophe-and-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-stars-defy-kremlin-and-turn-on-putin-invading-ukraine-a-catastrophe-and-a-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Stars Defy Kremlin and Turn on Putin: Invading Ukraine a &#039;Catastrophe and a Crime&#039;"},"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\">30<\/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-stars-defy-kremlin-and-turn-on-putin-invading-ukraine-a-catastrophe-and-a-crime%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=1345920&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--><p class=\"subheading\">A number of prominent Russians are echoing a chorus of global celebrities condemning Moscow\u2019s war on Ukraine, with some already beginning to suffer the consequences for defying the Kremlin line.<\/p>\n<p>When Russia annexed the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea in 2014, hundreds of artists signed a petition organised by the ministry of culture to back the move.<\/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>But this time, the consensus appears more shaky: Since President Vladimir Putin launched war on Ukraine, big Russian cities have, unusually, become the scene of rare protests and police retaliating with mass arrests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFear and pain. No to war,\u201d wrote Ivan Urgant, the usually smiley king of the late night TV chat shows in Russia on Instagram with an all-black picture.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s most popular rapper Oxxxymiron, in an angry video message released on his social media accounts, declared he was \u201cagainst this war that Russia is unleashing against Ukraine\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI think it is a catastrophe and a crime,\u201d he said as he strode through his home city of Saint Petersburg.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CaXZyWzjCji\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Russian comedian Maxim Galkin, also known for being the husband of the Soviet and Russian pop icon Alla Pugacheva wrote on Instagram: \u201cHow is all this possible? There cannot be a just war. No to war!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDancing With The Stars\u201d Ukraine pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy posted a video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CaXDCGrgAhk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> from Kyiv and wrote that \u201cwar is never an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s ALWAYS another way!\u201d Chmerkovskiy shared. \u201cWAR is NEVER an answer\u00a0#standwithukraine.\u00a0P.S. I will never be the same. This is stressful and I\u2019m getting old feelings back, like I\u2019ve done this before.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CaXDCGrgAhk\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>\u2018Black Thursday\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>The concerns have spread to the media, with correspondent Elena Chernenko of the Kommersant daily \u2014 often regarded as a mouthpiece of the Russian foreign ministry \u2014 organising an anti-war petition already signed by over 100 media colleagues.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHistory has seen many Black Thursdays. But today is darker than the others,\u201d Russia\u2019s top ranked chess player, the chess grandmaster Yan Nepomniachtchi, wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>But such outspokenness is not without risks in today\u2019s Russia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Urgant\u2019s show will not air as usual Friday due to scheduling changes prompted by the political situation, a spokesperson for his Channel One told the Interfax news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Chernenko wrote on Telegram that she had been expelled from the Russian foreign ministry correspondent pool on the grounds of a \u201clack of professionalism\u201d. She appealed to the ministry not to sanction other colleagues who signed the petition.<\/p>\n<p>The prominent Russian voices, which mostly stop short of attacking Putin personally, join the more predictable chorus of international celebrities roundly condemning the Russian leader.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhat most of us learned as kids on the playground: You don\u2019t stand by while a big kid beats up a little kid,\u201d wrote the novelist Stephen King.<\/p>\n<p>US actor and director Sean Penn went a step further by travelling to Kyiv to make a documentary about the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe director came to Kyiv specifically to record all the events taking place in Ukraine and as a documentary filmmaker to tell the world the truth about Russia\u2019s invasion of our country,\u201d said a post on the presidential office\u2019s Facebook page, showing a video of him meeting President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stand with Ukraine,\u201d wrote on Twitter the actor Ashton Kutcher, whose wife, the actress Mila Kunis, was born in the western Ukrainian city of Chernivtsi.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20023202\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21322667679334.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20023202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/AP21322667679334.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1132\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Hollywood actor and producer Sean Penn speaks with servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at their position near the frontline with Russia-backed separatists in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. Sean Penn came to Ukraine to shoot a film. (Ukrainian Joint Forces Operation Press Service via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, Russians who fail to distance themselves from Putin\u2019s attack on Ukraine are at risk of being ostracised from the Western arts world that once lionised them.<\/p>\n<p>Acclaimed Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, the chief of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg and known for his warm ties with the Kremlin, was Thursday suddenly dropped from concerts where he was due to lead the Vienna Philharmonic at New York\u2019s Carnegie Hall.<\/p>\n<h3>Ex leaders and acting icon<\/h3>\n<p>And expressing sympathy for Moscow\u2019s motives also risks landing Western politicians in trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Former French prime minister Francois Fillon, already in hot water for joining the board of Russian petrochemical giant Sibur, faced the wrath of his own right-wing colleagues for saying the West\u2019s refusal to take into account Russian concerns on NATO expansion had \u201ccaused a dangerous confrontation that could have been avoided\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>German former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, controversially chairman of the board of directors of Russian state oil giant Rosneft, condemned the war but also suggested there had been \u201cmistakes \u2014 on both sides\u201d made in the relationship between Russia and the West in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, France is awaiting the reaction to the invasion of legendary actor Gerard Depardieu, who took Russian nationality in 2013 and is known for his friendship with Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Depardieu opened an Instagram account earlier this month with a picture of himself embracing Putin and said on French television earlier this month: \u201cLeave Vladimir alone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of prominent Russians are echoing a chorus of global celebrities condemning Moscow\u2019s war on Ukraine, with some already beginning to suffer the consequences for defying the Kremlin line.<\/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-1345920","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\/1345920","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=1345920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345920\/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=1345920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}