They will continue to insist that the word "Russian" and the name of the poet be removed from the title. The day before, the institution created an official letter with a corresponding request, told theater director Olga Turutya-Prasolova Suspilno.
Letter of appeal regarding the renaming of the theater. Source: Public
"Falling before the language and culture of the invader is a lowly, humiliating, cowardly position. Ignorance and contempt for one's history, culture and language is a crime as terrible as treason or collaborationism. As long as the deputies have such a position, the neighbors will have an excuse to "rescue" us with rockets. The theater should be renamed," said the director.
The best option for the new name is considered by the labor team of the theater to be "Kharkiv State Academic Drama Theater named after G. F. Kvitky-Osnovyanenko". Now they plan to send the renaming initiative to the president for consideration in the form of a petition.
In Kharkiv, they did not get rid of Pushkin's name in the name of the theater. Photo: kharkov.comments
Currently, the team is working on the text of the appeal and hopes that it will receive the necessary support among the public.
"Employees of the theater in Kharkiv, which for some reason still bears the name of a great Russian, want to create a petition to the President of Ukraine to finally rename the theater... The petition contains the essence of an appeal, in which it is necessary to refer to the Law of Ukraine. How to formulate it correctly? There should be some kind of renaming law, probably," - asks for help in drafting the petition local cultural columnist Tetyana Leonova.
We would like to remind you that the Kharkiv Regional Council is at its session on September 20 did not support renaming of the Kharkiv Academic Russian Drama Theater named after O. S. Pushkin. Later, the head of the regional council, Tetyana Yehorova-Lutsenko, said that the deputies will return to the issue of renaming the theater.
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