Context: Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the State Chamber Choir and Philharmonic Choral Chapel 'Yaroslavia', Professor of the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory. Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, laureate of the Sobinov Prize. L. V. Sobinov. Signed an open letter of cultural figures expressing 'support for the decision of the President of Russia to launch a military operation to denazify Ukraine and protect the republics of Donbass'.