Streets that honoured revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin or the Bolshevik Revolution were largely already gone; now Russia, not Ukraine's Soviet legacy, is the cultural enemy.
A boulevard whose name translates as "Friendship of Peoples" — an allusion to the diverse ethnicities under the USSR – will now honour Mykola Mikhnovsky, an early proponent of Ukrainian independence.
Another street recognises the "Heroes of Mariupol" — fighters who held out for months against a devastating Russian campaign in that Sea of Azov port city that eventually fell.
A street named for the Russian city of Volgograd is now called Roman Ratushnyi Street, in honour of a 24-year-old civic and environmental activist who was killed in the war.
A small street in northern Kyiv still bears Dostoevsky's name, but soon will be named for Warhol, the late American pop art visionary whose parents had family roots in Slovakia, across Ukraine's western border.
The lLiterary Hub, October 13, 2022: Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko, hosts of the podcast Explaining Ukraine, join Fiction/Non/Fiction hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine through the lens of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. They talk about how Russian literature and Russian culture have separated crime from punishment, creating a society that distrusts laws and regulation and values power and impunity.
If Dostoevsky insists that one cannot shy away from horror and tragedy, Tolstoy would contend that people must act upon what they see. How should Dostoevsky and Tolstoy be read during Russia’s war against Ukraine?
The Conversation, April 6, 2022 Author: Ani Kokobobo Associate Professor of Russian Literature, University of Kansas
citerar Tolstoj i Thou Shalt Not Kill (1900) "Nationernas elände orsakas inte av enskilda personer, utan av den särskilda samhällsordning under vilken folket är så sammanlänkat att det befinner sig i ett fåtal mäns makt, eller oftare i en enda mans makt: en man som är så perverterad av sin onaturliga ställning som skiljedomare över miljontals människors öden och liv, att han alltid befinner sig i ett ohälsosamt tillstånd och alltid lider mer eller mindre av en mani av självförhärligande."
Euractiv 20.2. Concernant la stratégie pour parvenir à la victoire de l’Ukraine, le chef de l’État français détaille que « ce qu’il faut aujourd’hui, c’est que l’Ukraine mène une offensive militaire qui perturbe le front russe afin de déclencher le retour aux négociations ». En effet, cela serait d’autant plus important que M. Macron se dit « convaincu qu’à la fin ça ne se réglera pas militairement », considérant que, selon lui, « aucun des deux côtés ne peut l’emporter entièrement ».
Le président français croit à une stratégie « de la dissuasion par un réarmement européen ». Or, cela « ne peut se réduire à l’achat d’armes. Il faut aussi pouvoir les produire et bâtir notre architecture de sécurité sans avoir à la déléguer à d’autres, aux Américains ou aux Chinois ».
"Scientific collaboration with Russian and Belarusian institutions have been suspended in many western countries. This includes suspending scientists with Russian and Belarusian affiliations from experiments that have been built up together over decades and from other common scientific projects, and suspending common publications. Open international conferences and workshops cannot be held together anymore. These restrictions are being imposed on non-profit, non-military and no-dual-use areas which were built up in the past as bridges between nations. The restrictions affect peaceful research in general, and are imposed on people not responsible for this war, in violation of good scientific and moral practice. " see https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-escalation-spiral
Deniz Yücel und andere fordern indirekt Flugverbotszonen über der Ukraine. Dadurch macht sich der Journalist und PEN-Präsident gemeinsam mit anderen Akteuren zur Vorhut einer unverantwortlichen Leichtfertigkeit. Diese Haltung bedroht den militärischen und den sozialen Frieden. Mit dem öffentlichen Brechen von Tabus wird einer undenkbaren Politik der Weg geebnet. Ein Kommentar von Tobias Riegel.
March 9 BY PATRICK HYNES: Germany, which just appointed the head of Greenpeace as its climate czar, has been the world’s most ambitious adopter of this radical approach. Patrick Hynes is the editorial associate with the American Conservation Coalition and a commentator with Young Voices. He also serves as the chair of the Libertarian Party of Washington, D.C.
Greenpeace Sverige: Rysslands krig mot Ukraina har satt fart på debatten om beroendet av fossila bränslen och behovet av en grön omställning i Europa. Här ger vi svar på fem frågor om energiförsörjning i skenet av kriget.
A new tracking service launched by Greenpeace UK has identified at least 148 supertankers carrying oil and gas from Russia since the start of Putin's invasion of Ukraine
Feb 27, -22 The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) strongly condemns Putin’s order to put Russian nuclear weapons forces on high alert. This is incredibly dangerous and irresponsible, especially during a time of war and high tension.
February 25. In the time of the first Queen Elizabeth, British royal circles enjoyed watching fierce dogs torment a captive bear for the fun of it. The bear had done no harm to anyone, but the dogs were trained to provoke the imprisoned beast and goad it into fighting back. Blood flowing from the excited animals delighted the spectators.
Newsweek, February 21, 2022 by Jenni Fink. "While Putin didn't outright declare war on Ukraine, he railed against the belief Ukraine was a separate entity from Russia. He said Ukraine was built by Russia and has little to no culture or identity outside of Russia."