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| Ukrainian Ministry of Culture has removed Tchaikovsky's name from the academy's name |
| 2025-12-31 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [Regnum] The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture has removed the name of composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky from the name of the country's National Music Academy (NMAU). ! ! The ministry's press service reported this. The decision was made in accordance with the law condemning and banning the propaganda of "Russian imperial policy" in Ukraine, the department clarified. The ministry emphasized that the renaming does not affect the academy's status, its educational process, or artistic activities, and is part of the state policy of decolonizing the Ukrainian cultural space. The next step will be a public discussion of the issue of assigning a new name to the academy, the department noted. Since the 2014 coup, the Ukrainian authorities have waged a campaign against Russian history and the Russian language. In 2019, the Verkhovna Rada adopted a law recognizing Ukrainian as the state language, and in December 2023, a law on the rules for the use of the Russian language was passed. According to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Russian-speaking minority in Ukraine faces discrimination. |
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