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Moral myopia. High time to put Serebrennikov’s status as ‘dissident’ under scrutiny
24.05.2022
Since February 24, 2022, Ukrainian culture professionals and organizations called on the international community to impose “cultural sanctions” on russia and suspend any cooperation with people and institutions directly or indirectly supported by the putin regime and the russian capital, writes Ukrainian Institute in a statement on Kirill Serebrennikov’s participation in Cannes Film Festival.Many intellectuals in Europe reacted critically to this appeal, defending russian culture and its actors and arguing for a clear distinction to be drawn between arts and politics. russian film ...Ukraine’s media community calls to revoke Pulitzer Prize of Walter Duranty
17.05.2022
The Association of Ukrainian Media, Journalists and Public Organizations “Media Movement” addressed the Pulitzer Prize Committee to revoke the award of Walter Duranty, who headed the moscow bureau of The New York Times in 1922–1936. In his writings, Duranty denied the Holodomor and publicly supported Stalinist propaganda, imi.org.ua reported.Ladies and Gentlemen,We, the Ukrainian journalists who signed this petition, are grateful to the Committee for noting our work in covering the russian-Ukrainian war and countering russian propaganda. This award is a ...Marines taught me how to love Ukraine
11.05.2022
I am a Marine. It was the Marines who taught me how to love Ukraine sincerely! To love with courage and fearlessly, to love with a weapon in hands and in moments of the greatest danger, to love carefully, bravely and uncompromisingly! And while my heart is beating, I will feel pure, unconditional and unqualified love for my Motherland, writes marine commander Serhiy Volyna from Azovstal.Motherland is where a son loves his mother, a brother loves his sister, and ...moscow destroys indigenous peoples in meat grinder of war
05.05.2022
The kremlin does not feel sorry for Ossetians, Buryats and Erzya. The percentage of losses per capita among “foreigners” in the russian army is much higher than that of the “state-forming” people. Most who died in Ukraine are not from “fat” moscow or St. Petersburg, but from robbed Dagestan. The problem can no longer be silenced. The head of the Erzya people, Sires Bolyayan, raised the issue of ethnocide from the high rostrum of the United Nations.Speaking as part of ...Ukrainian journalists appeal to The Washington Post after publication about “Ukrainian extremists”
03.04.2022
Dear editors of The Washington Post,The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU) pays respect and thanks for the great job you do for Ukraine and the whole world. We write to you because of an exceptional case, which for sure is some kind of misguide. Please take everything below as a helping hand and sincere expression of our feelings, but not as an attempt to influence your editorial policy.We are deeply shocked with article in The Washington Post “russia’s ...A Tale of Two Journalists: Walter Duranty and Gareth Jones
30.03.2022
On June 24, the Pulitzer Committee received a letter from Dr. Margaret Siriol Colley and her son, Nigel Linson Colley, from Bramcote, Notts, UK. The letter is too long to quote in full, but the text can be found here. This lady is the niece of a certain Gareth Jones (1905-1935), a journalist who dared to tell the truth about the horror he saw in Ukraine in the spring of 1933. For his courage, he paid with a professional reputation and for ...Don’t look for compromises with putin, it would invite further aggression – Poroshenko
25.03.2022
Caught in self-made trap and paranoid picture of the world, suffering casualties both in blood and treasure, putin has switched to Plan B: level our cities and kill, starve, and break our populations into submission, the Fifth President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said at the Ukraine-EU Parliamentary Association Committee.“There is no doubt that putin’s invasion of Ukraine, unprovoked and premeditated one, will set the tone for geopolitics over the next half-century or more.This goes way beyond Ukraine and even Europe.As ...He will never become human. Let putin go mad
24.03.2022
In the early days of the Ukrainian-russian war, we spoke with psychiatrist Roman Kechur, president of the Ukrainian Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies, about putin’s mental state and what to expect from a mad dictator. The material received great publicity, was reprinted on Internet resources in English, Polish, French, and German. Three weeks later, we decided to continue the conversation in order to understand what threats putin poses after the failure of his blitzkrieg and how to mitigate those threats, writes ...From Mariupol. Waiting for death
21.03.2022
I go outside in between bombings. I need to walk the dog. It constantly whines, trembles, and hides behind my legs. I want to sleep all the time. My yard, surrounded by high-rise buildings, is quiet and dead. I’m no longer afraid to look around, writes a resident of Mariupol, Nadiya Sukhorukova.Opposite, the entrance to the one hundred and fifth house, number 105 is burning down. The flames have devoured five floors and are slowly chewing on the sixth. ...putin imitates Hitler, when he talks about ‘final solution of Ukrainian question’ – Zabuzhko
20.03.2022
Dear President, dear Members, dear friends, I cannot be more appreciative for this invitation and for this unique opportunity to speak here on Women’s Rights Day at probably the darkest hour in Europe since 1939, Ukraine’s contemporary writer and philosopher Oksana Zabuzhko said in Strasbourg 8 March 2022.For most of my literary career, I’ve been speaking for women and in the name of women. In my writings I have aimed to give voice to the experiences of women subjected to ...
