Culture
Thursday 16 May 2024
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"Recently, Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko adopted a resolution prohibiting any cultural or educational events in Russian from being held in Kyiv. Even in everyday life, if anyone speaks Russian at school during breaks, or addresses a shop assistant in Russian, they can face administrative charges.”
In July 2023, the Kyiv City Council introduced a moratorium on the use of “Russian-language cultural products,” such as books, songs, and films, in the city. While people are permitted to speak Russian in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine, as of 2023, most Ukrainians spoke only Ukrainian in daily life. -
“Saudi Prince Salman: From now on, only Saudi Arabian women can decide what clothing Saudi Arabian women will wear.”
Global Eye News misquoted Prince Salman, whose public reference to women’s attire confirmed his commitment to Sharia requirements. -
The Arabic calligraphy printed on the fabric of a woman’s dress was the word “Halwa.” It had nothing to do with the Quranic verses or blasphemy.
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"It’s just that YouTube Music published the TOP singers … in Ukraine. Not a single performer in Ukrainian."
YouTube data shows that the top performers in Ukraine sing in the Ukrainian language. -
“No person has been arrested in connection with the release of a video filmed at the Rasht bazaar.”
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“Oh Russian Land! An exhibit of art by the Russian people’s artist Vasili Nesterenko. Ministry of Culture, Republic of Mordovia.”
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"The trailer of the Putin movie is fake."
Source: https://youtu.be/k34LKIkTfLE?si=KbUlRme-WBh_lX5IThe trailer is authentic. It announces a political thriller Putin, produced in Poland and to be released in February 2024. -
#Gaza_Circus “I am wondering if the problem is with the Israeli bullets or something else; however, it seems that they are coming alive one by one.”
The video shows Muslims trained to perform an Islamic burial ritual, likely -- in Southeast Asia. It has nothing to do with Gaza. -
"The silence of European leaders over the burning of copies of the Quran is surprising, which amounts to their complicity in the crime."
European leaders have strongly condemned the Quran burnings while stressing that in democracies citizens have a constitutional right to free expression. -
“The trident, as a mark of slavery and a symbol of the conquest of Ukraine, was hoisted on the shield of the Motherland.”
The trident is an ancient universal symbol that has no history of slavery symbolism in Ukraine or beyond. -
“The planning of strikes with precision weapons against military and terrorist infrastructure facilities of the Kiev regime is carried out on the basis of information carefully checked and confirmed through several channels, knowingly excluding the civilian facilities, as well as cultural and historical heritage sites.”
Russia’s serial strikes on Odesa have repeatedly hammered civilians and damaged a cathedral that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. -
“Stand-up comedy is known as having a lot of satire, where a lot of people or events are joked about; however, these jokes must have limits, even in the US, the home of stand-up comedy. At the Academy Awards ceremony in 2022, when Will Smith heard stand-up comedian Chris Rock mock his wife's hair loss, Smith was so irritated that he went up on stage and slapped Rock in the face.”
The Will Smith-Chris Rock incident was personal and resolved without state involvement. That is drastically different from the consequences for Chinese comedian Li Haoshi, arrested and facing criminal charges due to the state censorship.