Putin: West Trying to ‘Cancel’ Russian Culture

Russia's President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on economic issues in Moscow, on Feb. 17, 2022. Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images

Russian President Vladimir Putin alleged that the West of trying to cancel Russian culture, including great composers and writers.

“Today, they are trying to cancel a thousand-year-old country,” Putin said in a televised meeting, according to state-run media.