USR MP Iulian Bulai, chairman of the Committee on Culture, Arts and the Media in the Chamber of Deputies, calls on the Minister of Culture, Lucian Romaşcanu, in a statement, to dismiss the interim director of the Bucharest National Theater, Mircea Rusu. The request comes in the context in which, says the deputy, there is more and more evidence that the reputed cultural institution is involved in the current interim leadership in pro-Russian propaganda, writes News.ro. Bulai also states that 500 viewers of TNB found, at the Studio Hall, “a copy of a nationalist, revengeful, racist and anti-European publication, entitled” Certainty “.
Newspaper that would have been distributed to the spectators at the Bucharest National TheaterPhoto: Facebook / Iulian Bulai
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“The National Theater does not do politics, but it has no problem with propaganda. About 500 spectators of the Bucharest National Theater found today, at the Studio Hall, a copy of a nationalist, revengeful, racist and anti-European publication, called “Certitudinea”. To “accompany” Dan Puric’s monologue, presented on World Theater Day. At the entrance to the hall, other copies of the same extremist file were distributed. I expect from the administration of the National Theater explanations regarding the distribution of that propaganda publication in a public institution, under the eyes of TNB employees, the interim director and a member of the Artistic Council. I expect the Minister of Culture, Lucian N. Romașcanu, to dismiss the interim director of TNB. With the same speed with which he confirmed that at TNB there is no politics, only art “, declares the USR deputy Iulian Bulai.
- The actor Mircea Rusu is, since February 7, the new interim general director of the “IL Caragiale” National Theater in Bucharest.
The USR deputy also asked the Minister of Culture for clarification a few days ago, after “the interim leadership of TNB forbade the actor Mihai Călin gestures of solidarity with Ukraine and refused to carry out a wider humanitarian campaign, but agreed to host his show Dan Puric, known as a supporter of Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the idea that Romania should move closer to Russia, not to the West, “the statement said.
“Minister, the world is really waiting for a position here. It is counterproductive for the same government to simultaneously support the elimination of Putin’s propaganda in the media (correct action), but to pay for pro-Putin propaganda through its own institutions, “Deputy Iulian Bulai told the Minister of Culture a few days ago.
Minister’s response: TNB management will conduct internal investigation and file complaint for unauthorized distribution of a publication
The management of the Bucharest National Theater will order an internal investigation and will file a complaint for the unauthorized distribution of a publication inside the institution, announced the Minister of Culture, Lucian Romaşcanu.
“Following the public notices regarding the distribution of a newspaper at TNB’s Studio Hall, the management informed us that tomorrow it will order an internal investigation and will file a complaint with the police for unauthorized distribution of materials inside TNB. No one from the management was informed about this extremely serious step “, Romaşcanu transmitted, on Sunday, on Facebook.
The Minister states that no “private materials” should be distributed in any subordinate institution.
“We cannot tolerate that an institution-symbol of culture of Romania (and no institution of the Ministry of Culture) becomes the space for the propagation of private materials, regardless of their content, especially for materials that could propagate interests foreign to Romania “, it is also shown in the post, according to Agerpres.
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