Thursday, 20 July 2023

Shakeup in the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy in Ukraine


The website of the Ukrainian Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine is down, but a few moments ago it was announced that President Zelenskyy had asked for the dismissal of Oleksandr Tkachenko, the Minister of Culture, apparently over issues of transparency and budgetary accountability. There has been quite a lot of public pressure for him to go, there was a video review of some of the reasons published two months ago, they include criticism of the way museums were secured from looting in the first weeks of the War, treatment of Russian culture and a number of other things. There have been a number of protests (here at a book fair for example). Sounds ominous.

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