[Aaus-list] FW: ACADEMY AWARDS, RUSSIAN TELEVISION, AND UKRAINE

[Chernetsky, Vitaly A]

Dear Colleagues,
Forwarding a message from George Liber that got lost in yesterday's server problems.

Best,
VC

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Vitaly Chernetsky
Associate Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Kansas
2140 Wescoe Hall, 1445 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045-7594
(785) 864-2359
vchernetsky at ku.edu
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From: George O Liber [gliber at uab.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 7:52 AM
To: Chernetsky, Vitaly A
Subject: ACADEMY AWARDS, RUSSIAN TELEVISION, AND UKRAINE

Dear Vitaly,
Could you post this on the AAUS-List? I sent it out yesterday and it failed to get forwarded to the AAUS List.

Sincerely,
George Liber


THE ACADEMY AWARDS, RUSSIA’S CHANNEL ONE, AND UKRAINE

>From Steven Lee Meyers, “Putin Engages in Test of Will Over Ukraine,” New York Times, March 2, 2014:
“For now, though, with a large-scale military exercise in western Russian already underway, the country felt very much on a war footing. By Sunday, an information campaign swept like an orchestrated gust through state-controlled news media. There were frenetic reports of clashes in Ukraine, of fascist threats to ethnic Russians and of the flight — entirely unsubstantiated — of 675,000 Ukrainians crossing Russia’s frontier as refugees. (One channel, in fact, showed a short line of cars at Ukraine’s border with Poland, not Russia.) The official Channel One network canceled its live broadcast of the Academy Awards early on Monday morning here.”

Why? you might ask. A possible, if not most likely reason:

According to the ABC broadcast of the Academy Awards on Sunday night, March 2, 2014, Jared Leto, the winner of the award for Best Supporting Actor (Dallas Buyers Club), said among other things:
“. . . to all the dreamers out there around the world watching this tonight in places like the Ukraine and Venezuela, I want to say that we are here and as you struggle to make your dreams happen, to live the impossible, we are thinking of you tonight . . .”

Jared Leto made these comments within the first hour of the show.


Sincerely,
George O. Liber
Department of History
University of Alabama at Birmingham
e-mail: gliber at uab.edu
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