Russia has appropriated our history and self-name, our cultural figures and their creative legacy and even entire artistic trends. One of the trends appropriated by Russia is avant-garde, which is known in the world as "Russian". But one has only to look at the creative biographies of its most prominent representatives to realize that it was Ukraine that made a phenomenal contribution to world culture. So it's time to change the signs in museums.
readFor us, traditional culture is something that grows from the roots, from this land. It is not a preserved museum exhibit, but a living cultural vibration. It pulsates in folk songs, in poems of Taras Shevchenko (the iconic national poet of Ukraine) and Serhiy Zhadan (the most popular modern poet), in the music of Mykola Lysenko (the father of Ukrainian classical music) and DakhaBrakha (a popular nowadays band). This is the same vibration. And we want to preserve it...
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