“We should increase cultural relations with the Russian Federation, following the wise initiative of the Germans who in this moment of crisis have stepped up investments in this direction. We would also have the tools given that the greatest reform of republican Italy was recently carried out. with the establishment at the Farnesina of a Directorate General for public and cultural diplomacy, to support our soft power abroad. To intervene with the Andkronos is Sandro Teti, editor specializing in post-Soviet countries and president of the Alferov Italia Foundation who adds: “During the Cold War dialogue was open between scientists and people of culture. Today in Italy I discovered media censorship. I was even kicked out of television broadcasts. And I continue to receive threats through social media and the telephone. Also of death”.
“We will come and burn all your books; You suck, you and your Russian masters; you are a sellout … Even by people I know, who claim to be champions of tolerance and politically correct, like an authoritative scholar of Polish language and culture who insulted me in a very heavy way for having published a newsletter on our very interesting book ‘Attacco all’Ukraine’ which contains authoritative interventions from Lucio Caracciolo to Fausto Biloslavo, from Franco Cardini to Maurizio Carta. Thetis – very heavy especially when anonymous. For this reason I repeat: I appeal to Ambassador Terracciano, authoritative director general for public and cultural diplomacy at the Farnesina, whom I know and appreciate very much, as the bearer of great cultural initiatives. We must follow suit. of the Germans who, in order to avoid strengthening Putin, have allocated an additional budget to carry out more cultural initiatives with Russ ia. If we don’t, it will be worse than the Cold War. “
“Although I have supported Putin’s actions several times in the past, I condemn this war and Putin who triggered it – specifies the Publisher – But I believe it was a sensational mistake of the West to quash all Russian media, such as Sputnik who is a multi-platform portal covering almost all European languages. With one result: in counter-offensive, the Russians will overshadow Sputnik’s alter ego, which is radio Svovoda (Free Europe – ed), established by the CIA in 1950 and financed since the 1970s to date by the US Congress as a TV broadcast throughout Russia via satellite, app and web in Russian and dozens of other languages of the former Soviet space, such as Chechen, Tatar … What is the use of excluding Russian and Belarusian Paralympic athletes? Prevent a course on Dostoevsky? Cancel the festival of Russian theater and music in Genoa? Request the immediate removal from Moscow of Marc Innaro, one of the most prepared and balanced Rai journalists? Children’s publishing in Bologna? All this – he concludes – will lead to an impoverishment of culture and information on both sides. While culture educates to tolerance “.
(by Roberta Lanzara)
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