De Russification News Today

while in the custody of the morality police had saddened everyone and was being investigated with transparency. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. a few days ago, oleksandr shapoval, one of ukraines leading ballet dancers, was killed while serving with the ukrainian army, fighting the russian invasion. art and culture are not immune from the impact of war. my guest today knows that well. alexei ratmansky is a world—renowned choreographer, with roots in...

after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. a few days ago, oleksandr shapoval, one of ukraines leading ballet dancers, was killed while serving in the ukrainian army fighting the russian invasion. art and culture are not immune from the impact of war. my guest today knows that well. alexei ratmansky is a world—renowned choreographer with roots in both russia and ukraine, once director of the bolshoi ballet in moscow, and now putting on a special production of giselle wit...

island of luzon has been hit by flooding as a result of heavy rain from super tycoon noru. emergency services in low lying areas have rescued people in low—lying areas from the roofs of their houses. noru is the strongest storm to hit the philippines this year. and now on bbc news, time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. a few days ago, oleksandr shapoval, one of ukraines leading ballet dancers, was killed while serving in the ukrainian army fighting the russian in...

A monument to Russian writer Alexander Pushkin was dismantled in Zaporizhzhia as part of Ukraine's ongoing de-Russification process, the Suspilne media outlet wrote on Oct. 31.

Russian masterpieces are hidden away in a Ukrainian museum, writers like Pushkin and Dostoyevsky are shunned and the Russian language is eschewed. After the invasion, the words "...and Russian" were deleted from the name of its key "Ukrainian and Russian Art" department, museum official Maryna Filatova told AFP. When the city was attacked, the museum scrambled to save masterpieces like "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks" by Ukraine-born Russian painter Ilya Rep...

Ukraine has shifted a campaign that used to focus on dismantling its Soviet background into one of ‘de-Russification’, renaming streets and pulling monuments down.

We are doing art, we want to concentrate on that. that is an interesting point. i just want to ask you whether you now feel there is a basis for, if i can use a word like this, derussifying the artistic output that we see in the west? for example, the bolshoi ballet was cancelled from performances in london. in cardiff, in wales, they cancelled a tchaikovsky concert. you are performing giselle, one of those classic ballets that is not russian, is that deliberate? do you think that there has to b...