Lviv area applauded Shevchuk said that the Ukrainian and Russian - brothers

Interview with Andrei Kuraev in which he shares his impressions of his participation in Ukrainian musical tour in honor of the 1020 th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus.
surprise was the fact that here we have taken very good. There was a surprising contradiction and discrepancy between the sentiments of the mass media and people.
On the one hand, pridiristye comments in the media and the Internet before our arrival, and the mood of the area was quite different.
In the same Lviv after the sermon the young guys gave me a rose. The next day at a local street a group of students stops me: “You know, we do not understand why it is considered that if we lvovchane, we should be Russophobes? This is not so.”
(about eastern Ukraine) First, there is much more drunk. […] On the other hand, it is here in the audience at the concerts there are real Satanists and pagans.
recall that in Sevastopol mayor is not elected democratically, but is appointed by presidential decree from Kiev. Therefore, in the past two years Sevastopol authorities do everything in its power to sever cultural ties with Russia.
I’m just bitter I can shrug and say: how strange fate is composed of Ukraine, which in different centuries, but again and again, she faces the same choice: either with Russia or under Poland and Turkey.

26 May 2008 | area, brother, experience, interviews, membership, tour, ukrainian, word

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