“It is vital for the international community to raise their voices in universal condemnation of the horrific violation of human rights in Ukraine.”
Anna Marazuela Kim on Ukraine
March 3, 2022
Last November, Institute Associate Fellow Anna Marazuela Kim visited Kyiv at the invitation of the Ministry of Culture to discuss thriving cultural cities. In her March 2 essay, she describes the cultural context of Putin’s invasion:
“Culture may seem an insignificant part of the larger geopolitical stakes shaping Putin’s war on Ukraine, or how to confront it. But at its foundation, his pretext for the right to Ukraine is deeply cultural: it is the view that Ukraine never was, nor is today, a distinctive culture that deserves its own status as a sovereign nation.”