Ukraine erasing Russian past from public spaces: Dostoevsky out, Warhol in
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.
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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 be a de—russification of culture ? swan lake, the most famous of all ballets, was always i think em...