Lisa Batiasvili: My country is occupied by Russia

Lisa Batiasvili: My country is occupied by Russia

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norman lebrecht

February 27, 2018

The Georgian violinist, playing this week with the Sydney Symphony, is keeping up her political rhetoric:

‘My country has been occupied by Russia in two regions and is still occupied,’ Batiashvili said in Sydney yesterday.

‘For me it is a painful thing; I just cannot accept this. The Soviet Union is not in existence but for Russia it is difficult to accept that these countries are independent.’

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