The Venice Biennale's decision to allow Russia to take part in its prestigious international art exhibition for the first time since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has been widely denounced as an attempt to rehabilitate the aggressor state through art.
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The government of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said it opposed Moscow's presence at the event, while Lithuania's foreign minister described it as "abject".
On Friday, a cross-party group of MEPs published a letter to the Biennale organisers (source in French) condemning Russia's participation as "unacceptable".
"Such a choice risks legitimising a regime responsible for continuing violence and will inevitably damage the reputation and moral integrity of the Biennale itself", they wrote.
In the days following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Biennale - one of Italy's leading cultural institutions - had b
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