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Lisitsa wrote about the people of Ukraine “raising in fury against their corrupt rulers.” But she said “the ruling class doesn’t let go easily” and the “same rich people” remain in power amid misery and poverty, thousands of deaths and over a million refugees.

She accused Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk of calling Russian-speaking Ukrainians “subhumans,” in official documents, and called at least one member of the nation’s armed forces a “neo-Nazi.” She has also posted photos of what she calls “Nazi torchlight marches.”

She said she has been “watching helplessly” as her country slides “ever faster into the abyss” and had taken to Twitter to get the “other side of the story” heard, “the one you never see in the mainstream media – the plight of my people, the good and bad things that were happening in Ukraine.”

TSO president and CEO Jeff Melanson said in a statement Lisitsa has been replaced due to “ongoing accusations of deeply offensive language by Ukrainian media outlets.”

“As one of Canada’s most important cultural institutions, our priority must remain on being a stage for the world’s great works of music, and not for opinions that some believe to be deeply offensive,” he said.

Lisitsa wrote that someone in the TSO decided she should not be allowed to play “likely after the pressure from a small but aggressive lobby claiming to represent (the) Ukrainian community.”