The head of New Donbass Lora Artyugina speaks about the role of culture in the conditions of information war

New Donbass
Jul 25, 2017 · 2 min read
Lora Artyugina — director, the head of New Donbass

The head of our organization, film director Lora Artyugina, was speaking on air of the video channel Idealist.media about her vision of the role of culture in the conditions of hybrid, information war.
Here to your attention several interesting theses from her monologue.

Culture — War — Trust.

• The difficult situation in the country is caused by several reasons, one of which is the complete absence of a cultural policy.

• The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, which in no way changed either after the Orange Revolution or the Revolution of Dignity, is structurally the same as the Russian one, its logic is deeply Soviet.

• Sigmund Freud said that in order to avoid war, much needs to be done for the culture, or more precisely, not hinder its development. It is necessary to meet the cultural needs of all the stratum of population.

• To my way of thinking, the symmetrical answers are always losing. Any attempt to give a counter-propaganda response to Russian propaganda is knowingly losing. Our task is to win this war. And this victory is possible only with an asymmetrical response.

• Successful Ukraine is possible only when we respond asymmetrically. There are no simple solutions in a complex world and there are no easy answers in a complex war. One of the components of the asymmetric answer is to develop, promote and support the modern Ukrainian documentary in the world.

The policy of the Kremlin and the President of the Russian Federation Putin destroyed the main thing — trust between nations.

More details — on the video below.

https://www.facebook.com/idealistmedia/videos/1889753061286914/

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