{"id":1662587,"date":"2022-09-28T13:50:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1662587"},"modified":"2022-09-28T13:51:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:51:41","slug":"russian-ballet-dancer-censured-for-pro-war-performance-in-uzbekistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-ballet-dancer-censured-for-pro-war-performance-in-uzbekistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian ballet dancer censured for pro-war performance in Uzbekistan"},"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-ballet-dancer-censured-for-pro-war-performance-in-uzbekistan%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=1662587&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>ALMATY (Reuters) \u2013     A prominent Russian ballet dancer complained on Wednesday that he was censured for performing a song dedicated to fallen Russian soldiers while on tour in Uzbekistan, while Uzbek authorities said he had deviated from an agreed programme.<\/p>\n<p>The incident highlighted the concern among Moscow\u2019s Central Asian partners about its military campaign in Ukraine, a fellow former Soviet republic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Dancer Sergei Polunin said in an Instagram video he had performed a dance \u2013 in military uniform \u2013 for fallen Russian soldiers to a song whose lyrics include lines such \u201cWe will rise, as long as God is with us and the truth is ours\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The song, \u201cLet Us Rise\u201d, was released on Feb. 23, Russia\u2019s Army Day \u2013 the day before Russian forces invaded Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>After the performance, Polunin said, officials of Uzbekistan\u2019s Culture and Arts Development Foundation \u2013 an Uzbek state agency overseeing arts \u2013 rudely reprimanded him for it. Polunin said he wanted Russian diplomats to stand up for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must not cave in to this, we must not allow them to do this to Russian artists and Russian culture,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Uzbekistan\u2019s Gazeta.uz news website, however, quoted the foundation as saying its officials were polite and pointed out that Polunin was supposed to stick to the programme, which it said was the song \u201cTake Me to Church\u201d by Irish musician Hozier.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having close ties with Russia, Uzbekistan and its neighbour Kazakhstan have refused to support what Moscow calls a \u201cspecial military operation\u201d in Ukraine, appealing for a peaceful settlement of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past week, tens of thousands of Russians have fled to Central Asia to evade a conscription campaign announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin amid setbacks on the Ukrainian battlefields.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Mark Heinrich)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/russian-ballet-dancer-censured\/attachment\/file-photo-russian-ballet-dancer-sergei-polunin-poses-for-a\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8R0WM-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8R0WM-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/russian-ballet-dancer-censured\/attachment\/file-photo-season-opening-of-la-scala-theatre-in-milan\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8R0WP-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8R0WP-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALMATY (Reuters) \u2013 A prominent Russian ballet dancer complained on Wednesday that he was censured for performing a song dedicated to fallen Russian soldiers while on tour in Uzbekistan, while<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"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-1662587","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\/1662587","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662587\/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=1662587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}