title: WHEN THE “SOFT” TURNS “HARD”. CANCEL-CULTURE CONTROVERSY DURING THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR
abstract: Th e 2022 unprovoked Russian aggression against Ukraine evoked nearly universal international condemnation but got much less unanimous response in more practical terms of political, economic and other sanctions. Many countries, especially in the so called ‘Global South’ refused to introduce any measures against the aggressor state for various reasons and under diff erent pretexts. Culture appeared to be the most controversial fi eld, where even the Western democracies, rather unanimous in their 