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Tannhäuser: YouTube Mix - Tannhäuser novosibirsk theater - YT Russia - Google News Russia clamps down on 'distortions' of classical plays - Washington Post Today, April 11th 12:02pm Shared by  1  person MOSCOW —  As Russia’s relations with the world soured over the past year, performing artists here have learned a harsh lesson: Use your stage, canvas or microphone to criticize the country or its president too freely and you run the risk of being  shut down . That message is increasingly being directed at artists considered to be in violation of an unspoken moral code of the Russian regime, which seems to be taking cues from the Orthodox church. In the past few weeks, Russian Orthodox Church leaders in Novosibirsk organized protests over the portrayal of religious symbols in an opera that led to the theater director being fired by the Russian Culture Ministry. Orthodox activists in Moscow delivered a severed pig’s head to a famou