Liberated from the Ukrainians
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Le Libé des UkrainiansdossierMore than 10,000 works from the establishment’s collection were stolen by the Russian occupiers as they left the city in southern Ukraine. A heartbreak for establishment workers, powerless in the face of these dispossessions and the sense of seeing their culture disappearing.
A year after the start of the war in Ukraine release gives the inhabitants and refugees of a stricken country the word and the pen with “the Libé of the Ukrainians”. You can find all the articles in this issue here and the newspaper on newsstands, Monday 20 February.
To enter the Kherson Art Museum, one must slip through the crack in a splinter-riddled corrugated iron palisade protecting the imposing building that looks like a medieval town hall, push open a heavy wooden door with slightly peeling paint, climb a few covered steps with a Climbing site plans over piles of boards that workers are cutting up on the floor with a deafening jigsaw screech, enter the hall—a coffee-cream-colored rotunda with cinder-block boarded windows and crammed with crates containing plaster busts and bronze heads—and pause before the grand staircase leading to the spacious rooms and wide corridors leading to the first and second level. But the visitor will go no further. Because there is nothing more to see here. The Russians left the city they had occupied for nine months, taking an Inesti with them