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“It’s important to help all the victims and to help those who are sent to fight and the families have no income anymore.”

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‘Tchaikovsky's Wife’ director defended receiving funding from Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.

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How wonderful that while Russian soldiers are raping Ukrainian children and executing Ukrainian men and women, so-called Russian dissidents are using platforms such as the Cannes Film Festival to express support for all the victims of war.

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Dasha Stokoz

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· May 19

Every day the Ombudsman's psychological helpline receives terrifying messages about sexual crimes. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are liberating towns & villages in the Kharkiv region, & over the past week, most of the calls have come from there. From the victims & their relatives.

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Perhaps after this speech, those who have criticised the Ukrainian cultural community for calling against giving a voice to Russian figures will realise what motivated us to make such calls? However, Serebrennikov's pearls do not end there.

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During the press conference, he says: “Russian culture has always been anti-militaristic and anti-war.” The glorification of empire, with which both Pushkin and Tolstoy and Solzhenitsyn are soaked, contradicts this affirmation since we know how empire grows.

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We can also talk about the chauvinism of Russian culture, its colonial practices (such as the banning of the Ukrainian language) and the executed Ukrainian Renaissance.

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· May 15

If you're in the mood to learn about the development of Ukrainian music, particularly its modernist movement, read this excellent article. It illustrates how far our talents could have gone if their lives had not been shortened by Russian or Soviet rule. nytimes.com/2022/05/13/art

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“Farewell khokhols,” writes Brodsky, the Nobel Prize laureate, in the poem titled “To the Independence of Ukraine”, using a racial slur for Ukrainians. “We’ve lived together, now enough. Wish I could spit into the Dnipro river, perhaps it would now flow backwards.”

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“Russian culture has always promoted human values, the fragility of man, the compassion one can have,” Serebrennikov said. Come to Ukraine and experience it first hand, I say.

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Incredibly cynical & disgusting is his other statement, this time about Surkov, who sponsored Serebrennikov's theatre work: “Mr Surkov is not an oligarch, he’s a civil servant,& I would also add that up until a given point in time there was only the state which financed culture.”

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These words refer to a man who, since the 1990s, has built himself up as a very distinct political figure and laid down the ideological platform for today's war to happen.

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The Hidden Author of Putinism

1) “He claps once & a new political party appears. He claps again & creates Nashi, the Russian equivalent of the Hitler Youth, who are trained for street battles with potential pro-democracy supporters and burn books by unpatriotic writers on Red Square.”

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How Vladislav Surkov invented the new Russia

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2) “As deputy head of the administration he would meet once a week with the heads of the television channels in his Kremlin office, instructing them on whom to attack and whom to defend, who is allowed on TV and who is banned, how the president is to be presented,…”

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“Up to a given point in time, financing through the state was not toxic, there was nothing shameful, it was quite acceptable”, Serebrennikov continues.

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Money doesn't smell, does it? It is absolutely impossible to analyse the origin and further purpose of Russian money. Especially looking at this timeline.

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Let me sum it all up with an extremely infantile phrase: “Culture is air, it is water and it is clouds, and so is totally independent of nationality.” I think schoolchildren understand the meaning of culture more than Serebrennikov.

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Culture is the beliefs, values, and practices of a group of people, Kirill and

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Dear #BenWhishaw, please take a closer look at this story and also at the figure of Eduard Limonov, who you were asked to play in Serebrennikov's film. This yet another Russian “dissident” supported Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 and backed Russia in the war in Donbas.

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Here are some very unambiguous quotes from his interview with the Italian newspaper Il Corriere Della Serra in 2015: 1) “That Donbass is populated by Russians.

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And that there is no difference with the Russians who live in the neighboring regions, in Russia, like Krasnodar or Stavropol: the same people, the same dialect, the same history, Putin is at fault for not saying it clearly to the USA and Europe. It is in our national interest.”

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2) “Ukraine is a little empire, composed of territory taken by Russia, and others taken by Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary.”

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3) “Its borders were the administrative frontiers of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine. Borders that never existed. It’s an imaginary territory, that, I repeat it, only exists due to administrative decrees.”

“Limonov: Ukraine is an invention” -Edouard Limonov – 2015

The premier Italian daily, Il Corriere Della Serra, published a large interview with Limonov, on two pages, in its Sunday supplement La Lettura. WE ARE EUROPE AND UKRAINE IS AN INVENTION “In a year…

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Imaginary territory, that's what Putin says. Thank you for your attention.

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Хєхє. Це добре. Пам’ятаю всі ці черги на опозиційних росіян на ОМКФ. «Фільм Учєнік - геніальний!»

наша кінотусовка роками ходила на Нєлюбовь, Дилда, Гєрман молодший та іншу хрінь. Я взагалі про цих росіян знаю суто через українську кінотусовку

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Не те, що я хвалюсь, але я справді не знаю всіх цих імен і назв

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I’d be real careful playing the sympathy card, if I was Russian.

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In the English speaking countries this type of person is defined 'brown nose", in Italy we have a less sophisticated and more direct definition.

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Wtf

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Hello, you can read it here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1527534 Talk to you soon.

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@dashastokoz: Russian film director Kirill Serebrennikov, at a press conference at Cannes, not only called on the international community to lift sanctions on oligarch Roman Abramovich, close to...

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Feels like WORLD IS loosing UNDERSTANDING OF QUALITIES - right and wrong . TRY to convince me after , that art and culture , language , has nothing to do with politic

Beluga - It's still the climate, stupid!

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war die PK nach eurem Stück über Cannes gestern?

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why is he even invited