like a not for governance lawyer says the ruling marks of paradigm shifted the interpretation of religious freedom. that's guaranteed in the, in the constitution. there are concerns, the judgement could set a precedent and lead to similar bands and other states, especially though it was governed by the hindu nationalist of odyssey, a john, the party of prime minister in that interim audi. elizabeth for adam al jazeera new delhi. ah, i am one of the top story on al jazeera, the mayor of keith has warned that ukraine's capital is facing a difficult and dangerous moment. a 35 hour curfew has been imposed after russian strikes on residential buildings and metro stations. at least 5 people died in the capitol. on tuesday, more civilians have escaped the besieged city of mario pole in around 2000 cars. but 8 supplies are not entering the city where hundreds of thousands of people are without food, water, and medicine. after more than 2 weeks, a russian bombardment,

ukraine says some 29000 people were evacuated from different cities through humanitarian corridors. on tuesday. the european union has expanded its sanctions on russia. the latest round includes a ban on investments and the energy sector, and the importing of steel and iron products is thought it will affect about $3600000000.00 worth of goods. that's the strongest package of sanctions ever adopted by dupont union in its history. satar history court decision will have more than 600 russian people being targeted by those sanctions. you will have a large part of the financial system being targeted by those sanctions. you will have new ban on some exploitation leg looks with the goods and we will withdraw to the russian state the most favored mission close in the world trade

organization. yes, president joe biden will travel to brussels next week to meet nato and your leaders is also signed to bill setting aside $13600000000.00 for mandatory and military and economic assistance for ukraine. the aid is attached to a one and a half trillion dollar annual spending bill. a court in moscow has find a journal $280.00 for a dramatic televised protest. or, you know, of any cobra interrupt to deny bulletin on state television, holding up a sign, reading stop the war. she was a senior editor, the state news platform channel one criminal called her actions a form hooliganism. a stream is next asking how the wars effecting ukraine's cultural heritage. that's something next. talk to i'll just 0. do you believe that the threat of an invasion of ukraine is currently the biggest threat international peace and security? we listen, we are focusing so much on the human tearing crisis that we forget the long term development. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that

matters on the i'm just rushing and for me, ok on today's show rushes warren. ukraine has killed thousands of people in close to 3000000 people, up the country, and it's russian forces move further into the country. they're also destroying large parts and ukraine's cultural heritage. a tactic all to come into war. take a look. right now what we're most concerned about is the damage and the potential damage to monuments, sites, museums, and their collections were also concerned about possible looting of collections at museums and other sites and that they and their elicit trafficking. so that's why some of the projects at the alley foundation that we're already supporting is to

inventory museum collections so that we have a strong record now of what goes where in terms of need we. um, we know from our arc, our, our partners on the ground cultural heritage professionals on the ground that what's needed most are things like packing materials. boxes, fire proof, blankets. i'm anti humidity materials so that their collections can be safely stowed, packed and stored. the faith of this collection, so making us extremely nervous of causing this moment international communities trying to kill arnoldo or bacon materials. so creating and thousands of sam, 2 grand by international museums. but i am afraid hooton's a situation to use to little and too late. last week the you and cultural agency released a statement saying it as quote, gravely concerned about the destruction of ukrainian art and history. unesco said,

quote, we must safeguard the cultural heritage in ukraine as a testimony of the past, but also as a catalyst for peace and cohesion for the future, which the international community has a duty to protect and preserve. today will take a look at the efforts being made to protect ukrainian cultural heritage threatened by this russian attack to do so, i'm joined from los angeles by irina by las cova. she's the cultural diplomacy program director at the ukrainian art center and from levine. eugene bears. this key is the founder of key of art. weak, an expert advisor to the ukrainian ministry of culture. victoria produced as a ukrainian photographer. she's with volvo, bazaar ukrainian artist. thank you all for being here today and hate. there's one more guest at this table for discussion and it's you on you tube. if you're watching this right now, live on you to see that box there. we've got

a lie producer waiting to get your comments to me so i can get them to our guest and you too can be in the stream. all right, with that, let's talk about art and war you g, lidless. let's start with your, your, in the middle to day. so going to go 1st. the russians as they approach they are destroying art museums and cultural heritage locations. and you not thought about this and in terms of history. and i thought, you know, when rome went to jerusalem and destroy the temple or napoleon, went to egypt and shot the nose off the sphinx or the taliban with the buddhist statues embalmed nan or isis. when they went across syria and iraq and destroyed ruins or the u. s. military when they went into baghdad. and they didn't protect those cultural locations and museums that got looted this is common to war. even son sue wrote about this in war. he actually advised against it because he said it would turn the population against an army. but is there something,

is there something different about what putin is doing here? and i asked this because it seems like putin's central argument for this invasion is about this kind of identity that he seems to be trying to destroy wells. this is very complicated, subject and lives. what is the main controversy? lice was in this war that on one side there is a claim that would in once in all, to, oh, free the heritage. oh, slow leak of russian culture. and to find the us as the source of the culture in the ukrainian territory. but she destroys, she's army, destroys landmarks, museums the hard to carry the g o o, the source. and that's the main controller. seeing that was like really big doubling and you know, perplexing. oh oh, namely,

and there is a steer. a signature is a, this is a handled side rather is on the attempt to, oh, like recreate the as a source of so for he said they will a g or is he's, he's his country. are you do some one from youtube just piped in here. erin assignment or simmons and says can destroying cultural heritage sites and items lead to adding further crimes for the long list that rushes potentially looking at him during war. and i also want to bring in a little sick hermes maybe and said it couldn't believe ukrainian nationalism undermines as effort slash narrative. what preserving ukraine's cultural symbols ah, risk increased russian resistance. so i guess like a, the heart of the question, there it, it, it is, art at the center of this, this war in some way. i think you will find that may be slightly surprising arena.

see your notting, let's get the arena. jumping on this one to hear thank you guys get to be with you everyone and contribute to this show and contribute to understanding of a broader context of this in cds were shy instigated upon ukraine is being a prolonged conflict which didn't start on february 24 in the middle of the night it's been an assault for hundreds of years during terrorists, russia and then during the brutal, tyrannical communist regime, with the kremlin, as a head of the state who attempted to merge the nations together of those 15 soviet republics who are absolutely different authentic

cultures with their historical path. what we've gone through as a nation is a brutal burden which ukrainians dropped after, proclaiming his independence. but everyone has to understand that russians always try to crouch upon our cultural identity and this military conflict. it's monstrosity and atrocity which you contemplate with horror right now, edits, or engine on the issues of cultural identity. so russia, wages war, and multiple levels armed aggression, information war and cultural war and put is intended to break ukraine as a nation is on the call on

a globe oakley clear. so you crane survive. lingual side. ukrainian language was banned multiple times and i'm myself as the victim of the language side. i was born in the soviet russia where ukraine was the republic of the soviet union. and it was forbidden to peak our mother tom. they would put people at shade who expressed themselves in ukraine. luckily my parents were wise enough to educate you need both at home and speak to me ukrainian publicly regardless of the fact that it was not popular, it was mostly illegal and they instilled an idea in my heart that i may not be ashamed of being. you're crazy and

we were the only family in the military town where i grew in clarity, who spoke ukrainian. and i remember when teachers in the primary cooler addressing my mom and dad, when they heard them talk to me in ukrainian telling why do you encrypt fully a child linguistically. while my parents had a very great argument to counteract that bold, say the 2nd atlanta. yeah. i want to bring in viola and victoria here bolo, if it part of this war is about art. then does that mean that artists are now kind of a part of the struggle or soldier? and if you're thinking about this, i want to bring in your specific experience experience. can we go to my screen guys? i want to show the story. this is off of art. net and it shows you guys making these what i would call practical sculptures maybe. and by the way,

these photos in this article which are lovely or by victoria but what they're making here, the sculptures well let you tell us what are these cultures, all of those. and the end, the end of. busy the end, the bank obstacles this, that we're seeing both against the on the recourse like them and to block the recalls when they, when they reach their goal, when they tried to call me so, i mean literally our fighting back. no, no, i would take a minute to to get back to the idea of identity war members come back to your question if you ok please. i believe.

busy i agree that what you said, it's right, it is an identity war and it's for you to identify and you're 20 and culture. and the main purpose of the war is also to to say that the reason why you're going in college are there is no, you create. there is no artist. one of the reasons that we came to ukraine on the 20th february because we actually meet natoya really in the instance 6 in the health nurse. and we are working on kitchen and the berlin cohort. and the reason we came here was the exhibition opened in q, and it was supposed to open on the 24th of the february invasion, russia, 73. but we actually decided to come here to show. busy the

show against fear we against this idea of culture being silenced by this aggression and now and now we were going to leave and i was helping the artist doing those things you showed like ours looks like are they both entities to go. ready busy think about it is the, those are built by authors. those are built by engineers by cooks all professions. and yeah, it's supposed to really victoria wanna bring you into this. tell me if that's not, are you? you can picture that in a museum, right. i can also picture it stopping

a tank on a row or should i could do that like what makes it makes a tank trip art or what makes our a tank truck but what would be the difference? oh, it's look like pieces of sarah. maybe it's can house akins is direction, but yeah, you can, you can easy me say it's are and because they're like really different legs that building like was it hard to sure to leg earn that her different colors from there. so i know luc slate art. yeah. well, but so like the good ratios, ocean is something that it's not, but it's more use just not you is, but then has used in that it does have juice and not just use now, beth usa eternally here. i want to bring in. this is a quote from a museum director there in the country, listen to the us event by and put the earth. we have to pass all

these collections, everything to other generations, from generation to generation. and that's something eternal as well as human life has to be eternal. thus one person should take care of another person and not kill it. at the same time, we are defending our land. we are defending our culture and protecting eternity. it is probably worth sacrificing your life. music is shameless through your desire browser cache bush. did you catch that, eugene? he said, pretend eternity is worth risking your life. yes, actually, as will they wanted to pill is served on. sometimes people diminishing the rule of the culture and in my opinion, the cultures are very precious, assert on one sides, us people usually justify it, but also it's a very dangerous with them. and what we face here is, so in this world, russia utilizes,

so it's o approach its own imperialistic and postcolonial approach. i do appropriate the green young culture and do v lived into its imperial texture. and basically what your grain is doing now is it's really the found, it's right for you'd say the entity right to coal. it's long to separate culture is so long traditions. you know that the, the crazy thing, the sad irony here is that ukrainians, or even protecting russian art, an artist from russian forces here, listen, listen to this. i thought i are like 25000 items in our collection car key fine art museums collection is one of the biggest in ukraine. one of the most valuable we have do ours. original dutch graphics re pen. so muranski pollen off it is

simply irony of faith that we should be saving russian artists paintings by russian artists from their own nation. this is simply barbara's ranking. we're rena, i'm aaron pipes and says this is off you tube. what kind of consequences sir russia faced due to herridge heritage site being destroyed in ukraine? a cow should russia hay in one way or another? what it, what do you think? well, i mean i was asking arena that, but eugene if you wanna go with that as well, but people want you to want to know like, should russia pay for this? and some weiss sure, sure. russia is a war, criminal and absolute aggressor and the world's biggest terrorists and whatever they committed as a war crime and they should carry consequences because every crime couldn't committed always. it was left without any punishment. it

just went like a water duck stale. but besides those sanctions, economical sanctions, there also should be a consequence of depriving russia of being a part of unesco and a part of those frozen assets should be invested into a restoration of ukrainian art and culture. and they're threatening the client. now they've gotta pay for it. you're technically legally correct that this actually is a war crime. and as in it's mentioned in several sets of international law. so include those from the hague. you know, there was a harrowing story about a week ago that was in the l a times and was about a museum that was set a fire. and it had all these paintings from calm down. i want to definitely show these paintings. um, someone helped me with prompt jenko, maria, very much,

very much. hank, i was her paintings and she died. what? 1997. so these, these can't be replicated and they are stunningly beautiful here. it's a, let me show this one on my screen here. if you would, and the real sad irony is the name of this particular painting is made that nuclear war be cursed. and it just breaks my heart to think it was a nuclear war. but conventional that might have set that ablaze in a museum. you know, there's a really, in that article, nelly, tom does about this guy, local guy kept thing and, and bringing out paintings and it's no to risk one's life for that, that kind of preserving eternity. something to pass down generation to generation. are you, were you familiar with premise jenko? can you give us a little bit about who she is for and in the art history of ukraine? maria very much and go is genuinely a miracle of ukrainian polk ark. she's

a self taught artist, she never went to any art school as a room in which misers the strength of ukrainian woman. it's create her creativity is so one boy. and so you can see that every piece of art should depicted her home was very modest. and she would often have visitors from all over the world because she was already so famous that she was so not bragging about it, as she was admired by pablo. picasso, who would linger the exhibitions of maria permit shackle marcia gall would take those centers. mccorkle creatures. she depicted and believe it into his motive in his art, she made every brush of her catch,

fur and motives. a very cause. michel and fan is the very flamboyant which incarnation the form, boys of ukrainian culture you can see in her art are cultural identification called eugene jump in here and i see free to call. i see should go talk. talk to me about this munoz, this through it says it's a choose allegiance. ready across she ah, i mean there's a money agreement because she, she is the soul. ready and the way of the green young art, but that's the only only one bar does the. ringback folk art or will it, we call it primitive as well, but, and we'd like you to look and this is part of the quote and the but the, we also have to consider that. oh yeah we, we just sold this in small, are inclusion about the that we have to keep and safeguard,

rushing out from russian conquerors. but we also have to keep in mind that, oh, your brain had an extensive on story or for collecting art earth scenes or likes st. 19th century. and there were collections in your green and museums when it was steal. i a russell empire, which well them us thornhill, and we have brought to russian museums such as a russian was he was on because we're going to close to gallery. so part of you, you bring an collection sophie, graham collectors who well, a benefactor so far in the age of 19th and 20th century just were looted and kept, ah, in russian museums. and also in, for example, the, another bright example is that the russian pavilion own denise of. ready being young in germany was built are money which are aware, ah,

given by you green an a collector, no fired. and basically because nothing to do with the russian empire because arson buyers that die and didn't have human capacity word as a way of thinking to invest in art. right. and, and you know, it's not just our, it's also these incredible unesco heritage. cultural sites like the cathedral of st . sophia that we don't know what, what pollutants gonna gonna do here. we have a bit of video about this one following versus invasion of ukraine cleaning. brazil harris age is currently at risk, but also directly under attack varying intentionally. we already have proof of those accidental damages, but also very deliberate and these years to the facts. and i think it is very important to understand this point that put in to deny the existence of ukraine as a state. and molly denies the existence of the process,

ukrainian culture and care your heritage. it's really impossible to know what prunes full impact on ukrainian cultural heritage will be. what we do now is since his annexation of crimea, in 20141000000 objects of archaeological importance, have already been sent back to moscow. now, these objects in some way relate to rush in history or imperialism. during this full scale invasion, putin is likely to do the same thing and move objects that in some way relate to russian history culture or their imperial legacy. back to the quote unquote motherland was, it goes to bad news. here is we've only got about a minute left in the show what i want to ask you g. it, is this a kind of a cut of genocide when you go after the history and the culture like this? well this is bull's, this is also also cultural. going to save you that's not only against and for you money to you with a russian. so doing off with it also like really

a do destroy the culture which is a ground. also nation growled for other humanity and does a complete disaster. i just called people in the world to recognize it. yeah, and the thing is, it's intentional and it's definitely not a new tactic. i mean, it makes me think of george orwell who said, you know, who controls the past controls the future and who controls the present controls of past. and it seems like right now, prudence trying to control both ukraine's past so he can control it's future. that's it. for today, i want to thank all my guest for joining us in this, this discussion, and we'll see you next time on the stream. ah .

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