{"id":297884,"date":"2023-01-26T08:04:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T06:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=297884"},"modified":"2023-01-26T08:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T06:04:46","slug":"let-west-live-without-tchaikovsky-russia-wont-cancel-world-culture-says-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=297884","title":{"rendered":"Let West live without Tchaikovsky, Russia won\u2019t \u2018cancel\u2019 world culture, says Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, SANA- \u00a0Russians are not perfect, but they have never thought of \u2018canceling\u2019 the works of prominent foreign authors and they will not live their lives without the works of world classics, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with students of Moscow State University on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have all been lectured and lectured from abroad. Yes, we are not perfect. Maybe, there is something to argue about with us, but we have never dreamt of canceling Beethoven or Bach, or O. Henry, but there (in the West &#8211; TASS) they have gone as far as to cancel Tchaikovsky,&#8221; the president said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, let them live without Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, but we will not be living our lives without world classics,&#8221; Putin emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian president believes that unity and multinationalism in the country has been &#8220;imbibed with mother\u2019s milk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our cultural code reflects diversity, as Russia was born as a single centralized state, as a multinational and multi-faith state, which has actually been ingrained in us from the cradle and imbibed with mother\u2019s milk,&#8221; Putin said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: TASS<\/p>\n<p>Hala Zain<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, SANA- \u00a0Russians are not perfect, but they have never thought of \u2018canceling\u2019 the works of prominent foreign authors and they will not live their lives without the works of world classics, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with students of Moscow State University on Wednesday. &#8220;We have all been lectured and lectured &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/267922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}