{"id":1338630,"date":"2025-12-30T15:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/without-tchaikovsky-in-the-name-ministry-of-culture-renames-national-music-academy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:08:27","slug":"without-tchaikovsky-in-the-name-ministry-of-culture-renames-national-music-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/without-tchaikovsky-in-the-name-ministry-of-culture-renames-national-music-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Without Tchaikovsky in the name: Ministry of Culture renames National Music Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, as part of its decolonization policy, renamed the National Academy of Music, which was named after composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/mcsc.gov.ua\/news\/dekolonizacziya-kultury-minkult-perejmenuvav-naczionalnu-muzychnu-akademiyu-ukrayiny-imeni-p-i-chajkovskogo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the press service of the department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From now on, the institution will be called the National Music Academy of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe decision was made in accordance with the Law of Ukraine \u201cOn Condemnation and Prohibition of Propaganda of Russian Imperial Policy in Ukraine and the Decolonization of Toponymy\u201d, as well as the laws \u201cOn Higher Education\u201d and \u201cOn Culture\u201d, explained Deputy Prime Minister for Humanitarian Policy and Minister of Culture Tetyana Berezhna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previously, the Expert Commission of the Institute of National Remembrance determined that the use of Tchaikovsky&#8217;s name in the title is symbolic of Russian imperial policy and contradicts current legislation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, the rector of the National Academy must submit the new version of the Statute within the specified period and ensure the implementation of all procedures related to the name change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among other things, it is necessary to make changes to certain documents and the contract of the head of the educational institution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subsequently, the issue of assigning a new name to the academy will be put up for public discussion with the institution&#8217;s staff, the expert community, and the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Separately, the Ministry of Culture emphasized that the renaming will in no way affect the status, educational process, or artistic activities of the institution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/pryamiy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, as part of its decolonization policy, renamed the National Academy of Music, which was named after composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky. This was reported by the press service of the department. From now on, the institution will be called the National Music Academy of Ukraine. \u201cThe decision was made in accordance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1338624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76878,76871,76872,76873,76875],"class_list":["post-1338630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-events","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1338624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}