“Why is he running a circus?”: Tina Kandelaki called to recognize Yuri Nikulin’s son as a foreign agent 24.01.2023, 19:45

The director and artistic director of the Nikulin Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard visited Monte Carlo. The International Circus Festival was held there. Its representatives recently severed relations with their Russian counterparts. In this regard, the son of Yuri Nikulin was suspected of foreign financing.

A group of circus artists said that Maxim Yuryevich has two passports – he is a citizen of Russia and Monaco, and also owns real estate in Monte Carlo. They also noted that Nikulin Jr. was invited to the principality as an honored guest of the competition organizers.

“Is this behavior a sign of support for the organizers of the competition and their pro-Ukrainian stance? And will the Ministry of Justice be interested in recognizing Maxim Yurievich as a foreign agent? It can be recalled that the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, created all the necessary conditions for the support of Nikulin’s private circus and even de facto nominally leased the land for the circus: one ruble per year, “circus artists said.

A representative of the Russian circus community supported Tina Kandelaki. The director of the TNT channel condemned the head of the famous team. “In this circus, a logical question arises: why does a person who clearly does not support Russia remain the artistic director of the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard? Well, the circus is private, you say, but then perhaps it has long been expected in the ranks of foreign agents, given the dual citizenship? In one word, a circus and nothing more,” the TV presenter expressed emotionally.

After that, Vitaly Borodin, head of the Federal Security and Anti-Corruption Project, turned to Prosecutor General Krasnov with a request to investigate Nikulin for foreign funding and to find out how he obtained a second citizenship. The politician said that the legislation of Monaco excludes the possibility of its citizens having a passport of another country.

“With this information, one cannot wonder in which country Maxim Yuryevich Nikulin is a citizen and whether the law enforcement authorities of the Russian Federation were informed about the second citizenship,” the document states.

The head of the Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard assured that his trip to the Cote d’Azur was exclusively of a work nature. “For anyone whose life is connected with the circus, it is a must. Any circus festival is a kind of exchange for us. These are new trends, new directions, new names,” said Nikulin in an interview with the Shot Telegram channel.

It recently became clear that the International Circus Festival in Monte Carlo refused to cooperate with Russian artists, which he informed in an official letter addressed to the Russian State Circus. The foreign organization also rescinded an earlier invitation to the jury of the General Director of the Russian State Circus, Sergei Grigorievich Belyakov, and rejected the services of the Honored Artist of Russia Gia Eradze, who had previously been offered to become the main director of the Jubilee Circus. competition in the principality.