“The current management of the conservatory regularly holds campaigns in support of the war against Ukraine”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
As a result, three students of the full-time department were escorted to the police station, where they were issued summonses. One of them, 26-year-old Danylo, a fifth-year student, said that those brought to the department spent more than seven hours there. After issuing the summons, they were not returned the passports taken during the detention.
The Pyotr Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory is one of the leading music universities in the world. Among its graduates are composers Oleksandr Scriabin, Serhii Rachmaninov, Alfred Schnitke, Aram Khachaturian, pianists Svyatoslav Richter, Emil Gilels, violinists David Oistrakh, Leonid Kogan, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and many other world-famous musicians. About one and a half thousand people enter the university every year, most of them come from other cities.
Pianist Pavlo Kushnir, who was arrested for anti-war speeches and died in July 2024 in a pre-trial detention center after a long hunger strike, studied at the Moscow Conservatory.
The current management of the conservatory regularly conducts actions in support of the war against Ukraine, collects funds and humanitarian aid to “provide leadership support to units of the airborne forces that perform combat missions in the SVO zone.”