Actress Valeria Lomakina left the theater where she worked after a scandal with a joke about the Karelian language. She wrote about this on her social network page.
“Unfortunately, due to the current situation, I consider it impossible to appear on the stage of the Drama Theater of the Republic of Karelia, so I am forced to terminate the contract.” — wrote Lomakina.
He once again apologized to anyone he may have unknowingly offended.
It should be noted that the actress’s previous publication, in which she also apologized, received more than 1.2 thousand comments. In addition, users were divided into two camps: some accuse Lomakina of hurting the feelings of a large group of people with her culture with her culture, others positively evaluated the actress’s performance in the program and are confident that she raised the important issue of Supporting Karelian culture to prevent its disappearance.
As reported EADailyIn the program “Battle for Time 2”, Lomakina performed the Karelian speech, encountering harsh criticism of the Karelian boss. Artur Parfenchikov.
“Calling, even jokingly, the sound of Karelian speech as creepy and saying from the stage that the Karelian language is an atavism is off limits. Beyond respect for the native speakers, for the land of Karelia, its traditions and its culture.” — the head of the republic appears confident.
The head of the region warned that he was preparing an appeal to the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Karelia to conduct a procedural verification of the crime provided for in Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Furthermore, I instruct the Ministry of Culture of Karelia to conduct an internal investigation into the incident.
After this, Lomakina apologized and explained that the show did not present her personal monologue, but the monologue of a character she had created: an exalted and not entirely sane artist from a provincial theater. And all the lyrics were spoken and performed from this character’s perspective.
