Russian Actress Chulpan Khamatova Goes Into Exile In Latvia – CB
Chulpan Khamatova, a number one Russian actress who has additionally made a number of worldwide movie appearances, has given an interview saying that she has gone into exile in Latvia, following her nation’s invasion of Ukraine. Khamatova recorded an interview that was broadcast earlier this week on YouTube, explaining that she travelled to Riga on…
Chulpan Khamatova, a number one Russian actress who has additionally made a number of worldwide movie appearances, has given an interview saying that she has gone into exile in Latvia, following her nation’s invasion of Ukraine.
Khamatova recorded an interview that was broadcast earlier this week on YouTube, explaining that she travelled to Riga on vacation a number of weeks in the past together with her daughters, however has determined to remain put quite than return to Russia.
“I assumed firstly that I’d simply wait. Then I signed the petition in opposition to the battle. After which it was made clear to me it could be undesirable for me to return,” she mentioned, in response to RadioFreeEurope’s translation. “I do know I’m not a traitor. I really like my motherland very a lot.”
Khamatova added that to make her return to Russia attainable, she would both must deny {that a} battle was happening or apologize for not supporting what President Vladimir Putin calls a “particular army operation.”
“Deceive your self, misinform the entire world, stay not in response to the reality,” she mentioned.
Khamatova got here to worldwide renown for her position of Lara within the 2003 movie Goodbye Lenin! In 2018, she appeared in The White Crow, Ralph Fiennes’ movie chronicling the life {and professional} profession of Rudolf Nureyev, and final 12 months’s Cannes Movie Competition prize-winning Petrov’s Flu.
She was on the six-person jury headed by Catherine Deneuve on the 63rd Venice Worldwide Movie Competition in 2006. She additionally leads the Reward of Life kids’s most cancers charity in Russia and a number of other years beforehand appeared in a video praising Putin for his help.
Khamatova is the most recent of a number of Russian cultural stars who’ve come out in opposition to the battle being waged by their chief. Olga Smirnova was a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow till final week, when she left Russia for the Netherlands, and instantly took up a job with the Dutch Nationwide Ballet.
Smirnova, who has a Ukrainian grandfather and describes herself as “one-quarter Ukrainian” lately denounced Russia’s invasion of the nation.