Freedom Fries: West Begins Scrubbing Russia from Cultural Sphere
As well as economic sanctions on Russia, several attempts to isolate the Eurasian state culturally are also underway.

As well as economic sanctions on Russia, several attempts to isolate the Eurasian state culturally are also underway.
Thousands of performers, cinema operators, event organizers and others joined together Sunday to protest COVID restrictions in Brussels.
Of all the folk tales, pageants, legends, and fables to accompany Christmas, few have achieved the level of immortality as “The Nutcracker.”
The Babylon Bee’s Joel Berry said his satirical website enjoys some “secret fans” among “A-list Hollywood stars.”
Jessica Vaugn, a former Playboy playmate, told Breitbart News that Playboy’s use of a male on the cover of its October issue is illustrative of the magazine’s decline in relevance.
China’s state-run gaming association recently issued new guidelines banning video games that depict homosexual relationships, “effeminate males,” and characters that with no “clear gender,” the Associated Press (AP) reported Saturday.
Cliff Sims, singer-songwriter and former communications advisor to former President Donald Trump, joined Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow to discuss his latest song, “U, Ur Mom, & Me,” which tells the story of he and his wife’s adoption of a 3-year-old boy from an orphanage in Colombia.
The Taliban terror group’s reconquering of Kabul on Sunday broke the “shackles” of a “cultural enslavement” Afghanistan endured since the U.S. invaded the country in 2001, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, a hardline Islamist, argued on Monday.
Dissident artists will save American culture from politicization and centralization in the entertainment industry, Amanda Milius said.
A South Korean public broadcaster was forced to issue an apology on Monday after social media users accused the TV station of using “inappropriate” images and commentary during its coverage of the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony on July 23, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported.
An Islamic Studies teacher has been convicted of sexually assaulting two girls and a boy in Birmingham, England.
Thunderstorms hit Germany late Monday and torrential rain poured down on southern and western parts of the country.
For the first time in two years, the Eurovision Song Contest will take place on Saturday, pitting the countries of Europe (and some invited interlopers, like the American rapper Flo-Rida) against each other to see who can write the catchiest pop song of the year.
The funeral of Second World War veteran Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband of over seven decades and Britain’s longest-serving consort, took place at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle on Saturday.
The Senate on Wednesday passed the Stop FGM Act to give federal law enforcement more authority to prosecute those who perpetrate the act.
Xi Jinping’s most recent book urges Chinese people to use the “charm of Chinese culture” to promote Marxism, the human rights magazine Bitter Winter reported on Wednesday, promoting an ideology developed in Western Europe with no significant ties to Chinese culture prior to Mao Zedong’s seizure of power.
The British Library has added George Orwell, Lord Bryon, Ted Hughes, and others to a list of shame for cultural figures with supposed links to slavery.
Artist Maggi Hambling has defended a modernist statue to feminist icon Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) derided by conservatives, traditionalists, and committed feminists alike.
The leader of Poland’s governing Law and Justice (PiS) party has vowed the country will not be “blackmailed” into giving up its “identity” or “freedom” by the European Union.
Mark Levin said senior citizens have a responsibility to the next generation to usher in an America with more freedom, prosperity, and strength than the country they inherited, sharing his comments on Friday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
Sheffield Cathedral has announced it will close down its current choir to ready itself “for the exciting future of the mixed urban community in which we live and work.”
The Conservative government of Boris Johnson has rejected a petition to protect Britain’s statues and monuments, saying they are “satisfied” with the supposed protections already in place.
Efforts to remove a statue of Robert Clive, the great British military commander, from the English market town he represented in Parliament have foundered — at least for now.
St. Albans Cathedral has said that in light of the Black Lives Matter movement, it will install a take on Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper that reimagines Jesus Christ as a black man above its altarpiece.
The Archbishop of Canterbury wants us to rethink the Western notion that Jesus was white and is wondering whether to remove monuments and memorials in Church of England buildings lest they offend someone.
The Guardian has promoted a petition calling for British honours depicting the victory of St Michael the Archangel over Satan to be redesigned, as the “offensive” imagery is “reminiscent of the recent murder of George Floyd”.
A leading scholar at the University of Oxford believes conservatives are afraid to stand up to the “zealous left-wing minority” who want to “erase and rewrite history” in case doing so prompts the mob to destroy their careers.
The British government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has suggested the iconic statue of Clive of India near its headquarters “may have to go”.
Nigel Farage has warned that the “book-burning has started” following an announcement from a university library that they intend to “decolonize and diversify” their collection of books to appease the Black Lives Matter movement.
Heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has told Boris Johnson to “grow a pair” after seeing Sir Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square repeatedly vandalised at Black Lives Matter protests.
Boris Johnson insisted Winston Churchill’s statue should be a “permanent reminder” of his wartime achievements — even as it was hidden within a grey box — but added that the wartime leader did hold “unacceptable” opinions.
The statue of Sir Winson Churchill has been imprisoned within a grey box to stop Black Lives Matter supporters from repeatedly vandalising it — an alternative to using active policing to deter them which some see as an admission of defeat.
The University of Liverpool has cowed to pressure from left-wing student activists during the nationwide assault on British history and agreed to remove the name of former Prime Minister William Gladstone from a hall of residence over “his views on
The 207-year-old statue of Robert Milligan, the Scottish merchant who established the West India Docks in London, has been preemptively removed by the authorities over his links to slavery.
Black Lives Matter marchers in Bristol tore down a statue of philanthropist and parliamentarian Edward Colston and threw it the harbour over his ties to the slave trade.
The statue of wartime prime minister Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square has been vandalised again, with fresh graffiti branding him a “racist”.
PARIS (AP) – Notre Dame Cathedral’s forecourt is being opened up to the public for the first time since the devastating fire of April 15th last year.
While international socialism has misappropriated May Day, a conservative Spring celebration alternative remains half-forgotten.
Several German parties, including the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Angela Merkel, have expressed support for allowing public broadcasts of the Islamic call to prayer during Ramadan across Germany.
The home of a middle-aged couple in who put up a model of England’s patron saint for St George’s Day was defaced with “NAZI” graffiti 50 bags of dog faeces in Milton Keynes.