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The Russian Seasons Festival starts in France in December 2019. This was stated at a press conference on September 3 by the Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Pavel Stepanov, TASS reports. The European audience will get the opportunity to get acquainted with the diversity of Russian culture during the festival.
The deputy minister explained that the project goes beyond the borders of both the country and the calendar year. The organizers received more than eighty applications for participation in the festival program, designed for Luxembourg and Belgium, 528 applications - for the program in France. They will select the applications in order to present Russian teams in Europe as fully as possible. Given that the festival will be held in the year of the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory, special attention will be paid to performances related to the memorable date.
Russkiy Mir
reported that the Russian Seasons, held this year in Germany, covered sixty-three cities in six months, forty-three creative groups from Russia performed in front of the German audience. The program included about five hundred events in which leading opera and drama theaters, as well as museums, took part. Previously, the festival was held in Japan and Italy.
Russkiy Mir
