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(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 15, 2008 Ballet dancer Igor Zelensky (L) from the Mariinsky Ballet performs during a dress rehearsal of 'Apollo' at the Saddlers Wells theatre in London. - Even at the height of the Cold War, Russian artists, albeit under close scrutiny, performed regularly in the West. But with the war in Ukraine, Europe is not about to see companies like the Bolshoi again or a collection of the magnitude of the recent Morozov exhibition in Paris. (Photo by Carl DE SOUZA / AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/CARL DE SOUZA)