A Moscow festival based around beloved cartoon characters the Moomins has been cancelled after the author’s estate threatened legal action
The Spring Moomin Festival was due to take place this week in one of Moscow’s largest shopping centres. But the event was pulled after the Russian distributor of Moomin material reported that the rights holders would not renew their licence “due to what is happening in the world”.author Tove Jansson
, creator of the Moomins, confirmed that lawyers had been instructed to act against the Moscow festival. “Our legal counsel cancelled a commercial event that was being planned and marketed without our permission,” a spokesperson toldEnigmatic author Tove Jansson The company had actually moved to sever ties with Russia last year without making a public statement.
“Last spring, we asked our commercial partners globally not to allow any new Moomin contracts, not to make any renewals of any contracts, and to all partnerships in Russia as soon as contracts made prior to the illegal attack by Russia on Ukraine allow for it,” the spokesperson said.
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