Elina Kulikova and dima efremov present a new music performance on the issue of the Russian imperialistic complex that made possible to happen the the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Elina is a theater director, who was working with feminist and queer dramaturgy before the start of war and then left the county after experiencing a political prosecution by Russian propaganda in March 2022. dima is a multidisciplinary artist and activist, who’s major work today is to help political prisoners and victims of Putin's regime. During the show artists are performing Russian classical romances, which can be considered as one of the major symbols of the country’s culture. At the same time they are telling about the systematic violence that this culture is based on and that has appeared in their life since childhood but today became visible to the whole world.

Performance is dedicated to the freedom of brave people of Ukraine and to freedom of political prisoners of Russia and Belarus.

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