Russian security services ‘shut down’ exhibition about wartime Britain and US - Telegraph
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An exhibition featuring Second World War photographs from the Imperial War Museum in London has been prevented from opening in Russia, reportedly on the orders of the Federal Security Service.
Jon Sharp, the acting British consul general in Yekaterinburg, was obliged to call off a speech at the planned opening of the exhibition at the Metenkov House-Museum of Photography in the Urals city on Friday.
The museum announced abruptly on Thursday that the exhibition of pictures of American and British troops and civilians during the war had been cancelled as the museum was being temporarily shut down “for technical reasons”.
However, a report in the regional government-controlled newspaper, Oblastnaya Gazeta, said the museum had been closed “on the orders of the FSB, in a directive that came from Moscow”.
“The reason for the closure was the new exhibition, ‘Triumph and Tragedy: Allies in the Second World War’, which the employees of the museum prepared together with the American consulate,” the newspaper said on its website.
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Raisa Zorina, the director of the Metenkov Museum, said: “I think there will be many theories about why we were closed down. We have agreed with the American consulate that we support the official version, which is that the museum is closed due to technical reasons.”
She added: “We don’t need a scandal and neither do they.”
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The British embassy in Moscow had promoted the exhibition on its Facebook page, promising that it would “recount events of the Second World War that are little known in Russia”.
Sur ladite page FB, la photo mise en valeur est l’exécution du général Anton Dostler pour des faits qui n’ont pas grand chose à voir avec l’URSS.
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Dostler
