‘I am 100% Russophile’ declares US actor at meeting of International Movement of Russophiles in Moscow
Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, was also there, giving what would be seen as a fringe event an official imprimatur. He delivered a keynote speech along with a missive from. “We are not just seeing neo-nazism, we are seeing direct nazism, which is covering more and more European countries,” said Lavrov. “We see how history is being destroyed before our eyes, holy monuments are being destroyed.
Among those on stage, Princess Vittoria Alliata di Villafranca stood out, a woman in her 70s with bright red hair, best known in Italy as the first translator into Italian of Tolkien.
Asked how she came to be speaking at a conference of Russophiles, she cited close ties with the Russian royal family. “I am a cousin of the Romanovs,” she said, referring to the descendants of the last royal family of the Russian empire. “I know them very well, I came to the wedding … So it’s a tsarist connection.”
She said she was in Russia to show “there are other people in the world that share your opinion and view on the world … and that makes it easier for a village lady in Sicily who looks at some dismay with her son who wants to get married to a cow.” She sought to avoid the subject of the war. Asked about it directly, she said: “I’m not an expert on that subject ... I find Putin nicer than Biden, but I’m a great friend of Obama’s stepsister.”
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