Oliver Conway
speaker
10,464 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Oliver Conway’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This isn't even like Orwell or Kafka.
It's just total madness.
Now he's worried that a proposed moratorium on Russian language content in the public sphere may even extend to songs.
How can you cut them out of our lives?
But lawyer Artem Kartashov, who's helped the council to decolonise Odessa, changing Soviet and Tsarist era memorials and street names, says there's a problem with Russian songs in wartime.
Photographer Natalia Mikhalenko agrees.
She grew up speaking Russian but switched to Ukrainian when she learnt about Russia's centuries-long repression of Ukrainian culture.
Ukrainians already use it for most purposes, except private conversation in Odessa.
Guides advertising excursions have switched to it, for example, as the law says everyone must use it at work.
Ukrainian and Russian are closely related, and most Odessans understand both.
But Anastasia Pilyavsky, an anthropologist who's founded a group campaigning for more open discussion of language issues, says that's not the point.
It's not clear yet whether the council will approve a moratorium on Russian in the public sphere, or what exactly that would mean in practice for Boris Barsky's theatre.
At the end of his performances, he salutes jesters, his fellow actors, who defend the country by keeping it laughing, and then its ultimate defenders, its armed forces.
Follow me!
Shut them up!
He wants Ukraine to win, but he thinks his country can fight Russia without needing to fight Russian too.
That report from Odessa by Tim Hul.
If the Duke and Duchess of Sussex hope to be welcomed back into the royal fold on their return to the UK, they'll have been disappointed by the clarification from King Charles.
A letter sent on his behalf to a number of institutions in Britain states that Harry and Meghan will not be undertaking any activities as working royals, only as private citizens.
The couple, who spent the past six years living in California, moved back here last month.
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