http://frankfurtmelomania.blogspot.cz/2014/05/gergievs-letter-to-munich-philharmonics.html "Does this letter mean that annexing part of other countries is part of Russian culture? If Mr. Gergiev loves part of Ukraine recently annexed and dislikes Western tradition of honoring other countries sovereignty, he should not work in London or Munich, but go back to Russia. This will end this contradiction between his cultural values and principles of Western life."
Точнее не скажешь. Впрочем, на Западе они не хуже Гергиева умеют сидеть на двух стульях.