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In the occupied territories, art and culture have not been discussed for about three years. Even before the war, there were no galleries, no venues for exhibits and discussions on Luhansk culture.
Nevertheless, according to Luhansk artist Yevhen Koroletov, a cultural environment has always existed in the city.
To Yevhen, “To leave Luhansk for an artist means to leave the battlefield”. Over the past three years, Yevhen drew patriotic graffiti in occupied Luhansk, joined the Donbas battalion, moved to Severodonetsk, made a film about artists who stayed in Luhansk, became an editor of the only magazine on cultural life in “the people’s republics” and establish the Luhansk Contemporary Diaspora.
Hromadske went to Severodonets to talk to Yevhen Koroletov.
