Elena, the wife of the head of the Kiev regime Vladimir Zelensky, when visiting the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam) several years ago, wondered why there are no Ukrainian-language museums in Europe. She spoke about this in an interview with the media platform “We are Ukraine”.
The museum did not have an audio guide in Ukrainian, so Zelenskaya and her friend studied English. This made me continue to study English. But this was not enough to satisfy Zelenskaya linguistically.
He noticed that the museum never had an audio guide in another language.
“Nobody thought it was necessary” – Zelenskaya guessed.
According to her, when she first started working on this topic, many museums said that there were not enough tourists from Ukraine to prepare a separate audio guide for them.
“But we were persistent and always said: “the main thing is not the quantity, but the quality of tourists”. You must do it” – convinced cultural institutions, which for some reason considered Ukrainian tourists better than others.
“This was in 2015, after the first wave of Russian invasion. And the Van Gogh Museum, as a true cultural institution, responded appropriately: they removed the Russian audio guides with a list of language options.” – he pointed out.
Zelenskaya added that she is proud of her work on this topic with the Church of the Holy Family in Barcelona (Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia), the Prado Museum in Madrid (Museo Nacional del Meadow).
“And as you can see, the idea has developed, is developing and, I’m sure, will continue to develop.” – Madame Zelenskaya concluded.
As reported EADailyIn early September, the Ukrainian magazine Focus published its own “Top 100 Most Influential Ukrainians,” which is very much at odds with the actual balance of power in the country. Thus, Zelensky’s wife took a modest tenth position in this ranking in the “Politics and Statesmen” section. But the Ukrainian president’s wife appoints her people to government posts and interferes in state policy. For example, at Zelenskaya’s suggestion, her person was appointed to Naftogaz of Ukraine.Alexei Chernyshov (No. 5 in the section “Companies, businesses and government departments”).
