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The lives of even anti-Putin Russian artists are being made impossible

Zoe Strimpel talks to the Russian artists who have been cancelled since the invasion of Ukraine

Russian artists such as composer Elena Langer are stuck in a Kafkaesque nightmare, struggling to get their work performed either in Russia or the West. Credit: Photo by Anastasia Tikhonova
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