A Russian ballerina and movie actress has been stripped of her Lithuanian citizenship after she declared her help for President Putin and his assault on Ukraine.
Ilze Liepa, 60, the daughter of a Latvian ballet star from the Soviet period, was a daily soloist on the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in the course of the remaining decade of communist rule. She additionally acted in a Soviet-era adaptation of Bambi and various different Russian-language movies.
Within the early years of the Putin presidency, she was given a few of the highest awards the Russian state confers upon figures from the humanities, together with the Folks’s Artist of Russia title.
Regardless of having spent nearly all of her life in Russia, in 2000 she was granted Lithuanian nationality due to