The Yeltsin Centre has cancelled a lecture by Nikolay Nakhshunov, a lecturer at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka), due to a post in the “UralLive” channel, which is linked to the Urals team of propagandist Vladimir Solovyov. This was reported by It’s My City.
According to journalists, the lecture was intended to discuss the philosophy of Deleuze, psychoanalysis, and their connection to modern social theories.
Nakhshunov’s lecture, planned for 17 June at the Yeltsin Centre, was cancelled after a post appeared in the “UralLive” Telegram channel, part of a media network associated with Vladimir Solovyov. The post claimed that Nakhshunov collaborates with organisations supporting the queer community.
After this publication was released, calls to cancel the event began to circulate on social media. Several hours later, the Yeltsin Centre announced that the lecture was cancelled.
In April, the Yeltsin Centre removed director Vladimir Mirzoev’s play “I Killed the Tsar” from its schedule, and in February a meeting with poet German Lukomnikov was disrupted. According to “UralLive” and the “Russian Community,” they allegedly hold anti-Russian views. In May, it became known that a lecture by philosophy populariser Dmitry Khaustov would not take place.
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The adoption of the “LGBT propaganda” law marked not only widespread censorship but also intensified repression against LGBTQ people and the organisations that support them. With the designation of the “International LGBT Movement” as an “extremist organisation,” this pressure has increased once again.
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