«Swan Lake» on the ruins: how does Russia loot art? | BIG RUSSIAN LIES #4

The episode "Art" from the cycle "The Great Russian Lie" shows how Russian art is used as a screen for Russian crimes. How the Kremlin orchestra plays Tchaikovsky on the ruins of the bombed-out Mariupol Drama Theater. As in 2014, the Russian conductor Valery Gergiev organized a charity concert in Rotterdam in memory of the victims of the MH-17 disaster, which was shot down by Russian mercenaries. As in 2015, he is coming with a concert to Palmyra, to Syria, which before that was bombed by Russia. Journalistic investigations prove how Russia used cultural institutions and financed music festivals in Europe for years to promote its business interests. Russian museum institutions are looting in the war, taking art treasures out of Ukraine and holding pseudo-historical exhibitions to legitimize the conquests of the Russian army.
The speakers of the episode are:
- ballet soloist of the Lviv Opera Theater Viktoriya Zvarych;
- cultural columnist Axel Brueggemann;
- composer, co-founder of the laboratory of modern opera OPERA APERTA Ilya Razumeyko;
- author of the channel "Kulturtriger" Bohdan-Oleh Horobchuk;
- Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, culturologist Nataliya Kryvda;
- art historian and critic Kostyantyn Doroshenko;
- Professor of Ukrainian Studies at University College London William Blacker;
- Rena Marutyan, doctor of public administration, professor of Taras Shevchenko National University;
- the founder of the info-hygiene initiative "How not to become a vegetable" Oksana Moroz.
Watch other episodes of the Great Russian Lie cycle:
The fiction that the world believed: How Russia REWRITES history in its favor | BIG RUSSIAN LIE #1 - • Вигадка, у яку повірив...
Great Russian literature is FAKE!? How the Kremlin uses it for war | BIG RUSSIAN LIES #2
How the Kremlin pushes its «Russian world» using cinema | BIG RUSSIAN LIES #3
"The Great Russian Lie" is a series of films about a country living in an atmosphere of informational sanitation, in which the narratives of Russian propaganda are debunked.
For centuries, Russia has used history, literature, cinema, art, sports, and media as instruments of propaganda to advance political interests. It calls itself the heir of Kievan Rus and justifies claims to the lands of neighboring states.
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