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Forward To The Past: Soviet-Style Censorship Returns To Russia

ISSUES Posted: April 3, 2015 12:51 am

The day after the director of Novosibirsk’s opera house was fired over a controversial production of Tannhäuser, a top Kremlin official “proposed that theatrical productions be subject to ‘inspections’ before they are presented to the public. Though [he] did not use the word ‘censorship’ (which is explicitly prohibited by the Russian constitution), this would represent a return to the Soviet system of preliminary censorship, in which no work of literature, theatre, or film could appear without the approval of government censors.”

ISSUES Published: 04.01.15

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 04.01.15

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