Street Artist's Controversial Visit to Russia Sparks Debate

«The recent visit to Russia is consistent with the path of artistic militancy that I have been carrying forward for years and, like the previous ones, aims to spread a message of peace. Far from me to praise Putin, but how can we not break the propaganda bubble that wants us in conflict and on more and more fronts?». Thus, in a post on Instagram, Jorit after the photo and his sentences about Putin. «European politicians must immediately resume diplomatic contacts and open a dialogue with Russia. We must stop the war, we must build bridges between peoples, we must do it now!», reads further on the artist's social media. Jorit, who is the street artist embraced by Putin at the international youth forum: that mural in Mariupol. Ukrainian spokespeople in Naples: «Now he remains in Russia». The photo that the street artist took next to Vladimir Putin in Sochi did not please the Ukrainian community of Naples. To act as spokesperson for the discontent, with a symbolic protest that took place in the afternoon in Piazza Dante, was Zhanna Zhukova, journalist, representative of the My Volia association and spokesperson for the unified coordination of Ukrainian associations in Campania. The woman went to Piazza Dante, already in recent weeks a meeting place for the Ukrainian community, and attached two posters next to the altar set up to honor the Russian dissident Alexei Navalny that portray Jorit next to Putin. On the face of the Russian prime minister a hand dripping with blood. Zhukova, who moved to Naples with the outbreak of the conflict from Odessa where she was a political journalist, in particular as an author and director for Dusmskaya.it, addressed a thought to Jorit: «I am in your Naples, but if you really like murderers, stay in Russia. Poor Jorit. You don't understand that this monster eats people like you for breakfast, squeezes the juices out of them and then spits them out»