The Ministry of Culture has raised the issue of excluding Russia from UNESCO.
More than 70 world cultural organizations have refused to cooperate with Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine . This was stated by Minister of Culture and Information Policy Alexander Tkachenko on the air of the All-Ukrainian telethon, according to “Ukrainian Truth”.
“More than 70 organizations have refused to cooperate with Russia – the Cannes Film Festival, La Scala Theater and many other cultural organizations.
They are forbidden to participate in the biennial (art exhibition, held every two years), triennial (held every three years) in Italy. That is, in fact, we are launching an offensive against the cultural curtain, at least during the war, and we meet a lot of support from fellow ministers of culture, as well as from specific cultural institutions and organizations, “Tkachenko said.
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He also added that the Ministry of Culture had raised the issue of postponing the UNESCO meeting from Kazan to Lviv and excluding Russia from the organization or at least suspending its membership. Tkachenko believes that Russian culture cannot and cannot be outside politics and outside the war as long as it is financed by the aggressor state.
The Minister also added that the Ukrainian side is doing everything to deprive Russian figures of participation in the European cultural space. According to him, “we have significant achievements in this direction.”
“There is a certain trend when they try to explain to us that culture is out of war. No, as long as this culture is supported by the aggressive state of Russia, it is not out of politics. This is a soft force that also carries a kind of bullet and death for Ukrainians. You want to cooperate with the Russians – there, beyond the Urals, there is a large territory, the taiga, there and cooperate, “- said Alexander Tkachenko.
Read about how Russian culture built the foundation on which Russia's current invasion of Ukraine is based in Ekaterina Shchetkina's article “Russian culture: how a small person breeds great grief” on ZN.UA.
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