2015 Reports

Conference on Kharkiv, City of Ukrainian Culture

On September 25, 2013, a commemorative plaque for Yuri Shevelov was removed from the façade of the late American émigré scholar’s former Kharkiv home and destroyed by order of the Kharkiv city government. On March 1, 2014, Kharkiv poet Serhiy Zhadan was beaten during a pro-Maidan rally at the city’s regional state administration building.