British filmmaker opens Moscow show under Ukraine shadow

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British filmmaker opens Moscow show under Ukraine shadow

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/british-filmmaker-opens-moscow-show-under-ukraine-shadow-050825804.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/BIB9uRc4lfJj7H2Sp8QXzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/aeb12045d978b0c5a213fa71c8b4a19c874c07b2.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="British director Peter Greenaway poses with the outstanding British contribution to cinema award at the BAFTA British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Opera House in London on February 16, 2014" align="left" title="British director Peter Greenaway poses with the outstanding British contribution to cinema award at the BAFTA British Academy Film Awards at the Royal Opera House in London on February 16, 2014" border="0" /></a>It was meant to be a highlight of a year-long British-Russian cultural exchange, but a huge multi-media exhibition by British filmmaker Peter Greenaway has failed to escape tensions over the Ukraine crisis. The event, which showcases the short-lived but powerful Russian Avant-Garde movement of the late 19th-early 20th century, opened Monday -- with British officials conspicuously absent. Greenaway, 72, celebrated worldwide for films like &quot;The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover&quot;, and his wife, Dutch director Saskia Boddeke, together created the video installation for the UK-Russia Year of Culture in 2014. Both were on hand for the gala opening but &quot;unfortunately for known reasons, there is no political presence of our British partners,&quot; Russian President Vladimir Putin's cultural representative Mikhail Shvydkoi told a news conference.</p><br clear="all"/>

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