Yesteday the government of Canada sanctioned Putin’s closest accomplices based on a list provided by my colleagues from @ACF_Int Well done, Canada! Thank you, Mark Carney. Hope this marks just the beginning — with the EU, US, and UK soon to follow

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How long can this go on? Valery Gergiev, one of Putin’s closest allies and aides, is going to perform at a music festival at the Royal Palace of Caserta in Italy. Gergiev is a loyal, devoted, and openly pro-Putin figure. He is under Canadian sanctions. He hasn’t performed in

Disgusting and important. 2025 — Europe is undergoing a renormalization of Putin's most loyal and close envoys...

It’s outrageous that Valery Gergiev performs in Italy Regione Campania with EU funds—a Putin ally, backed for supporting his ‘elections’, Crimea’s occupation in 2014, and not condemning Ukraine’s invasion in 2022. Vincenzo De Luca

Grateful to The Anti-Corruption Foundation for investigating and bringing this issue to light. The participation of a Putin supporter like Gergiev in a publicly funded cultural festival is unacceptable and deeply troubling. I urge everyone who loosely talks about censorship to read this thread

Sono grata ad The Anti-Corruption Foundation per aver ricordato con questo thread chi è Gergiev. Ribadisco che la partecipazione di un sostenitore di Putin a un festival culturale finanziato con fondi pubblici è inaccettabile. E Invito chiunque parli impropriamente di russofobia o di censura per

Turns out, the President of the Campania Region — the one who invited Putin’s friend Gergiev to perform at the festival in Italy — recorded a response yesterday to the complaints and protests against Gergiev’s participation. In an 11-minute video, Vincenzo De Luca Vincenzo De Luca