Culture News.The Cultural Start of Summer

No matter how complicated contemporary international relations may be, the human need for contact with art endures through all times.

India, Chennai: more than 30 young saplings of various tree species were planted on the grounds of the Tamil Nadu State Science and Technology Centre

Victory Day in World Culture

The Moscow International Festival of Righteous Cinema was also timed to coincide with this anniversary – a festival of films that promote traditional values, respect for history, and humanism. The competitive programme included 67 films from 34 countries. To have won were the films from Russia, Belarus, China, and Italy. The number of participating countries doubled compared to the previous year, demonstrating a clear demand for serious, highly moral films – something that contemporary global culture so sorely lacks.

A Fascist Attack on a Museum

Just as during the Great Patriotic War, culture is once again under attack. Among the planned strikes by Ukrainian neo‑Nazis on civilian targets in Russia, cultural treasures have again been destroyed. On 10 June, the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck the ‘Defence of Sevastopol 1854–1855’ Panorama Museum with a drone. A large part of the exhibited copy of the panorama was annihilated. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service established that the flight mission for this barbaric attack was prepared by the British, for whom evidence of the heroism of the Russian soldier is a particularly acute irritant. They have once again shown their true face – a pro‑fascist snarl – emulating the Germans who carried out an air raid on the very same building in 1942. At that time, two‑thirds of the paintings were saved. The original fragments have survived again, and are now held in a branch of the museum. The Russian side has already assured that the panorama will be restored. And the strikes on the military infrastructure of the Kiev regime in response to the crimes of the neo‑Nazis will become even more powerful, more precise, and more extensive. The Western accomplices of the Nazis are also legitimate military targets and must be held accountable for what they have done.

Giselle Benilla (Colombia) and the group ‘Katyusha’ performing the song ‘Cossacks in Berlin!’

The results of the 8th International Music Festival ‘Road to Yalta’ have been announced. This is a unique event from the point of view of its sublimity and the emotions it invokes. Artists from different countries perform translations – in their native languages – of beloved Soviet songs about the Great Patriotic War. The winners were S. Davasurengiin (Mongolia), Y. Coffignier‑Barry (France), Xing Kaizheng (China), and D.G. Martinez (Cuba). The participant geography embraced Bulgaria, Brazil, Ghana, India, Spain, Italy, Colombia, Nigeria, Serbia, the United States, and Tunisia. Words cannot convey how powerfully, with eternal memory and value, these works – born from the very heart of the Soviet people, who bore the brunt of the fight against fascism – sound in a way that unites the entire world, and how people of any culture find........

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