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‘Lenin was an enemy of humanity’: Why Kyiv wants to put Cossack chief statue in place of Soviet leader

Removal of Soviet-era statues sped up when Russia seized Crimea in 2014, and since Putin’s 2022 invasion has moved at pace as Ukrainians question their identity

The Guardian - UK

Johnny Depp Is Adapting A Classic Work Of Russian Literature, And I'm So Here For It

Have some sympathy, and some taste.

Cinemablend

Russia has also declared war on literature. Look at what’s happening and be warned

Books – on LGBT themes or Ukraine – are Moscow’s target this time. And there as elsewhere, self-censorship is amplifying oppressors’ work, says journalist Anna Aslanyan

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Identity war: Far from frontlines, Ukraine resists Russia’s cultural legacy

Many Ukrainians back official ‘decolonisation’ efforts but others say it is misguided and defined by hostility.

Al Jazeera

‘It was a very hard journey’: Master and Margarita director on its unlikely Russian success

Michael Lockshin’s film adaption of Bulgakov’s anti-censorship masterpiece has become a box office hit in Russia against all odds

The Guardian - UK

Belvoir's The Master and Margarita: astonishingly ambitious, physically demanding and a resounding success

Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s cult novel The Master and Margarita has inspired many artists.

The Conversation

We’re recycling Putin’s missiles as art to fund the war effort. Defiant Ukrainians have learned to be creative

Shell casings painted and auctioned, Russian books pulped to raise money, institutions renamed: the resistance has many guises, says the novelist Andrey Kurkov

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What was Dracula really like? 550-year-old clue to life of Vlad the Impaler emerges

Scientists are hoping ‘historical biomolecules’ on a 15th-century missive written by Vlad Dracula, the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s vampire count, will reveal more about him

The Guardian - UK

When freedoms and imagination are threatened, ‘read dangerously’

Why readers and writers will have to fight against a closing in of culture more than ever

The Hindu

How Stalin Toyed With Mikhail Bulgakov

The author of The Master and Margarita faced a bewildering mixture of rewards and censorship.

Reason

Commentary: What is Ukrainian music, and what does it say about the war?

LOS ANGELES — The first week of May, I attended four concerts. All four, whether by chance or intent, had a connection with Ukraine. That was obvious the first day of May at a benefit concert for Ukraine put on by the Wende Museum and Jacaranda Music at the Robert…

Los Angeles Times

Why is Ukraine trying to cancel Russian culture?

Ukraine has ramped up its de-Russification efforts, but figures like Tolstoy and Pushkin were also targeted by Russia.

Al Jazeera

Angela Ajayi: The Kyiv of my youth

A writer who spent summers in Ukraine dreams of bringing her own daughter there after the war.

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