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New York’s famed Metropolitan Opera cut ties with its Russian superstar soprano after she failed to distance herself from Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the crisis in Ukraine, the Met announced Thursday.

Even though Anna Netrebko had issued statements in recent days critical of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, she has stayed silent on Putin himself, whose reelection she has publicly endorsed in the past.

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