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Illuminating Taras Shevchenko
In an interview on Ukrainian National Radio , Rory Finnin (Director of CUS) addressed the nation-consolidating function of Taras Shevchenko's verse. 'Shevchenko did not present Ukrainian national identity as an ethnic concept. For him, it was more a mode of existence, a mode of behaviour. In this way, Shevchenko reaches...