Controversy in Russia over Holocaust ice danceMOSCOW -- Tatiana Navka, a former Olympic ice dancer, and her on-ice partner have caused controversy by dressing up in concentration camp uniforms for a dance routine on a popular television show. Navka and Burkovsky told Russian media on Sunday that it was their way of paying homage to Holocaust victims. "Motifs from the Holocaust are not for parties, not for dance and not for reality (TV)," Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev told Israeli Army Radio on Sunday. Averbukh, who said in a 2012 interview that he "had problems" in his childhood because of his Jewish name, stood by the Holocaust-themed dance. "This routine is my idea," Averbukh, who is also Ice Age's chief producer, told Komsomolskaya Pravda on Sunday.

Source: The China Post November 29, 2016 00:00 UTC