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Ukraine war: Preserving culture

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4796 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this epsiode of Business Daily Ashish Sharma looks at how the art world has tried to preserve Ukraine´s cultural and artistic heritage from the ongoing war.

Hear the story of how valuable Ukrainian paintings were put on trucks and sneaked out of Ukraine as Russia began heavily bombing the country. Thanks to the idea of one art collector they are now on display in a museum in Madrid.

Ashish also managed to link up with Kyiv to speak to the Director of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, Yulia Lytvynets and Nadia Tymchuk the CEO of the Museum´s Charitable Foundation about how they are trying to protect important artefacts and preserve Ukrainian culture.

Presenter/producer: Ashish Sharma (Photo: Exhibition of Ukrainian art in Spain. Credit: Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:17.9

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0:22.9

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0:28.7

catch up with the first season now while you're waiting for season two. Search for Dear Daughter wherever you get your BBC podcasts. There are many casualties in war, the loss of life, damage to infrastructure,

0:42.0

hardship of day-to-day living, not to mention the devastation to the economy,

0:46.7

plus a ruin of small businesses and enterprises.

0:53.7

But there is also an impact on a society's artistic expression.

1:01.0

Hello, I'm Ashima, and in this edition of Business Daily, we look at how the art world has tried to preserve Ukraine's cultural and artistic heritage from the ongoing war.

1:11.3

Paintings, once hidden away in a Russian art gulag for 60 years,

1:15.1

were put on trucks and snaked out of Ukraine during the peak of Russia's carpet bombing of the country.

1:20.7

Thanks to the idea of one art collector, they now sit in a museum here in Madrid.

1:25.3

Well, at the beginning of the war, I initiated a WhatsApp group amongst colleagues and friends

1:32.1

in the art world.

1:33.0

What could we do?

1:34.1

How could we support Ukraine?

1:36.6

The whole annihilation of much of Ukraine's cultural heritage is really part of the Russian

1:44.1

strategy. We also linked up with Kiev to speak to really part of the Russian strategy.

1:45.0

We also linked up with Kiev to speak to the director of the National Art Museum of Ukraine,

1:50.1

Yulia Livenetz, and Nadia Timchuk, the CEO of the museum's charitable foundation.

1:57.5

According to safety measures, actually, it is quite wise to divide your collection into parts and to secure them somewhere they will indeed be secured.

2:11.2

So nowadays this is a good plan for our art to travel in Europe.

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