A Khrushchev to open Salzburg Festival
NewsNina Khrushcheva, great-granddaughter of the former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, will deliver the opening address of this summer’s Salzburg Festival, it was announced today.
A New Yorker, she is regarded as an analyst of the Putin regime.
She says: ‘The power of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment or Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace surely lies in their insights into the human condition, not just the Russian one. In any case, refusing to engage with Russian culture will not change Putin’s calculations or force him to withdraw his forces from Ukraine. What it will do is cut off a potential source of information about his objectives and motivations.’
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