Context: Poet, artistic director of the Moscow Theatre of Poets. 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'. Trusted representative of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. Trusted representatives ensured the re-election of Vladimir Putin, who has pursued an aggressive policy against Ukraine since 2014, in the non-competitive presidential election on March 18, 2018.