Last month, I stood at the corner of what used to be Pushkin Street in Kyiv. Following Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, it has been renamed Yevhen Chykalenko Street, after a major figure of the early 20th-century Ukrainian independence movement. To lovers of literature and opera, cancelling Alexander Pushkin, poet and author of Eugene Onegin, might seem a bit over the top. Putin, yes, but why Pushkin?
上個月，我站在基輔普希金街的一角。在2022年弗拉基米爾?普京(Vladimir Putin)全面入侵烏克蘭之后，這條街被重新命名為葉芬?奇卡連科街(Yevhen Chykalenko Street)，以紀念20世紀初烏克蘭獨立運動的一位重要人物。對于文學和歌劇愛好者來說，摒棄俄羅斯詩人、《尤金?奧涅金》的作者亞歷山大?普希金的名字似乎有點過分。恨普京沒錯，但為什么是普希金？
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