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?
上个月，我站在基辅普希金街的一角。在2022年弗拉基米尔•普京(Vladimir Putin)全面入侵乌克兰之后，这条街被重新命名为叶芬•奇卡连科街(Yevhen Chykalenko Street)，以纪念20世纪初乌克兰独立运动的一位重要人物。对于文学和歌剧爱好者来说，摒弃俄罗斯诗人、《尤金•奥涅金》的作者亚历山大•普希金的名字似乎有点过分。恨普京没错，但为什么是普希金？
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