Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has clapped again at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comment in regards to the ‘cancel-culture’ of the West, which tries to curb freedom of expression, studies ‘Deadline’. In the previous few days, a number of massive western firms stationed in Russia, have cancelled their motion plans and big-ticket releases in Russia owing to the Putin administration’s invasion of Ukraine. In a televised assembly, Putin in contrast the cancellation of Russian cultural occasions with the actions of Nazi Germany.

He stated, “Today they (the western nations) are attempting to cancel a complete thousand-year-old nation, our folks. I’m speaking in regards to the progressive discrimination of the whole lot linked to Russia, a pattern that’s unfolding in various Western states and with the total connivance and generally the encouragement of the ruling elites. The infamous cancel tradition has grow to be a cancellation of tradition.”

As per ‘Deadline’, he then compared the treatment of Russian cultural figures with Rowling’s ostracizing for her perceived anti-transgender views, as he said, “Not so long ago, they canceled a children’s writer, Joanne Rowling, because she, the author of books spread around the world, in hundreds of millions of copies, failed to please the supporters of the so-called gender liberties.”