Dyvyna’s repertoire of 300 folk songs from Donetsk is an artistic refutation of Russia’s claims over Ukrainian culture. “There are four million people there who want to think in Russian and speak Russian,” Sergey Naryshkin, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service and Putin’s former colleague in the Soviet KGB, said in February. “The myth about Russian-speaking Donetsk has little …
“Saturday Night Live” opened this weekend with a moving choral tribute to Ukraine as invading Russian forces continued to push toward the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. At the end of the harmonious a cappella performance, the camera panned down to reveal a table of white candles that spelled out “Kyiv,” as “SNL” cast members Cecily Strong and Kate McKinnon solemnly …
