"They are trying to boycott a whole thousand-year-old culture," Putin said at a literature prize meeting at the presidential palace.
Vladimir Putin refers to the massive reaction against Russian culture seen around the world after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Putin claimed, among other things, that the Russian composers Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov had been removed from concert posters around the world, and that Russian authors and books had been banned.
Sweden's Minister of Culture Jeanette Gustafsdotter (S) has previously said that Sweden will not support the Russian government through cultural cooperation and a large number of cultural institutions have chosen to interrupt their exchanges with Russia.
The text is updated.