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On 24 February 2022, the Russian state launched an unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This aggression plunged a country of 41 million people into the horrors of war: shelling, artillery strikes, tank invasions, and aerial attacks on civilian targets, as well as cyberwarfare and media manipulation. These unjustifiable acts follow the illegal annexation of Crimea and occupation of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in east Ukraine in 2014, during which the Russian government and its cultural proxies were gra
A convenient compartmentalisation is no longer tenable — not when Ukrainian cities are being bombed, towns and villages are burning, children have to spend their days in bomb shelters, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding, Russia has committed war crimes and more than 2.5 million Ukrainians have crossed the border as refugees in the first 16 days of the war. Amongst the latter, multiple marginalised groups are facing additional discrimination at the borders. With no end to the terror in sight, and millions of
We therefore demand that arts organizations adopt a boycott of the Russian state’s participation in the international cultural arena, including divestment from funding sources that originate in Russia, until the Russian state completely withdraws from Ukraine, including Crimea and east Ukraine. Specifically, we demand that: