May 14, 2022: “Pushkin Street is located one kilometer from the Drama Theater in Mariupol where 1,000 civilians hid and an estimated 300 died after Russians dropped a bomb on it. In Kharkiv, it’s the same distance from the bombed-out central square of the city to the Pushkinska metro station. Pushkin’s streets can be found throughout war-torn Chernihiv, Kyiv, Sumy, Mykolayiv, and Kherson. There are even Pushkin streets in Bucha and Kramatorsk. The President of PEN Germany recently declared that ‘the enemy is Putin, not Pushkin,’ relying on word games to protest against the idea of a ‘blanket boycott’ of Russian culture. ...”
Kharkiv
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