"President Putin, I ask you to take a photo together to demonstrate to Italy that you are human like everyone else and the propaganda about you is not true": the Italian street artist Jorit, aka Ciro Cerullo, said this last night during a youth forum in Sochi addressing the Russian president.
"When I painted a mural in Naples depicting Dostoevsky, the mainstream Italian media attacked me. There is a lot of pressure on artists and Italian cultural figures who try to say that the Russian people are not as propaganda portrays them," he said. Jorit.
It is Ciro Cirullo, a street artist known by the name of Jorit, the young Italian who last night spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a youth forum in Sochi.
At the end of the forum Cirullo asked Putin if he could take a photo with him, because, he said, "in Italy they say a lot of strange things about her".
To which the president replied: "Sure, as long as you don't pinch me to make sure I'm a real person."
Putin then took a photo with the Italian artist and one with a young African man.
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Russia and Italy are united by the love of art and the "desire for freedom", Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday.
It is the second time in about two weeks that Putin has highlighted the closeness between the two countries, as he did on February 20 in a conversation during a forum in Moscow with student Irene Cecchini.
"President Putin, I ask you to take a photo together to demonstrate to Italy that you are human like everyone else and the propaganda about you is not true": the Italian street artist Jorit, aka Ciro Cerullo, said this last night during a youth forum in Sochi addressing the Russian president.
"When I painted a mural in Naples depicting Dostoevsky, the mainstream Italian media attacked me. There is a lot of pressure on artists and Italian cultural figures who try to say that the Russian people are not as propaganda portrays them," he said. Jorit.
Jorit is also known for having created a large graffiti representing a little girl crying under the bombs in Mariupol, a Ukrainian city on the Black Sea conquered by Russian troops in 2022. "The idea - he explained - was to show the problems of the children of Donbass to the whole world. Western media often distort reality. For example, they talk about the suffering of children in one country, but remain silent about what is happening in the neighboring one."
Video Jorit with Putin
A large mural of Ornella Muti
, created by Ciro Cerullo, a street artist known as Jorit, was inaugurated in the Russian city of Sochi in the presence of the actress and the artist and will remain in memory of the world youth forum in which he spoke last night President Vladimir Putin, who spoke with Jorit himself.
The portrait of Ornella Muti stands on the wall of a building on Khudyakov Street and was created as part of a street art festival which saw the participation of 25 artists from 11 countries.
"When I thought of a way to bring Italy and Russia closer together, I thought of the great actress Ornella Muti" said Jorit, quoted by the Russian media.
The actress, whose maternal grandmother was from St. Petersburg, is very popular in Russia and in recent days she was in Moscow to attend Fashion Week, where her daughter Naike Rivelli walked as a model.
"Propaganda was the art of the KGB, disinformation was the art of the USSR and evidently there is still someone in Russia who uses this art to try to put others in difficulty. Italy is on Ukraine's side but this does not it means that we are at war with the Russian people. The Italian people are friends of the Russian people but we do not want the Russian army to invade Ukraine."
Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said this when responding to reporters regarding the words addressed by Vladimir Putin to the Italian street artist Jorit.
Russia summons US ambassador for interference
Russia has summoned US Ambassador Lynne Tracy for "attempts to interfere" in Russia.
The US ambassador to Russia was summoned to the Foreign Ministry, which warned Washington against trying to "interfere" in Russian internal affairs, warning that Moscow is ready to respond harshly, up to and including expulsion.
This was reported by the Tass agency.
Ukrainian partisans sabotage the railway line around Moscow
"The Ukrainian resistance sabotaged a railway control unit in the Moscow region, near the Golovkovo station, in the Solnechnogorsk district, causing damage to the railway line around the Russian capital, used for military purposes. The resistance movement in Crimea wrote on Telegram Atesh quoted by Ukrainian media: "Our goal is to stop the Putin regime's military supplies to the front.
This can be done," the group wrote, publishing photos and videos of the set fire to the control unit.
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