On the other hand, participants from Ukraine will be exempt from registration fees and any incidental charges
The London International Awards (LIA), an international festival that highlights and rewards new ideas in the most different disciplines of the creative industry, has decided that it will not accept entries from Russian participants in this year’s edition. And on the other hand, participants from Ukraine will be exempt from registration fees and any incidental charges.
The positioning follows the movement of other festivals. At the beginning of March, Cannes Lions was the first to exclude agencies and advertisers from the country ruled by Vladimir Putin and, on the 9th, it was the turn of D&AD, a festival that takes place on the 25th and 26th of May.
According to Barbara Levy, president of the LIA, the decision to ban Russian inscriptions was not an easy one. “As a company, we do not support any form of unjust aggression and we fully support all efforts for peace. Therefore, we stand in solidarity with Ukraine and its creative community, in the face of tremendous adversity, the depths of which most of us can only imagine,” she explained. .
