Agresja Rosji na Ukrainę wygenerowała niewątpliwie ten pozytywny skutek, iż na Zachodzie rozpoczęło się przywracanie ukraińskiej tożsamości ewentualnie uwzględnianie ukraińskiej tożsamości bardzo wielu twórców kultury oraz ich dzieł.
Przykładem tego fenomenu jest dokonanie przez brytyjską National Gallery zmiany nazwy znanego dzieła francuskiego impresjonisty Degas z "Rosyjskie tancerki": na "Ukraińskie tancerki".
Od wielu lat problem był debatowany i zdecydowana wiekszość znawców tematu wskazywała na "ukraińskość" tańczących kobiet (miedzy innymi mają niebiesko żółte wstążki we włosach). Jednakże dopiero teraz - ostatecznie - pojawiła się ta krytyczna słomka, która złamała grzbiet rusofilskiego wielbłąda.
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"The National Gallery has altered the title of Edgar Degas' drawing Russian Dancers to Ukrainian Dancers", prompting calls for other cultural institutions to rethink "lazy" interpretations or mislabelling of Ukrainian art and heritage.
After calls by Ukrainians on social media, the gallery said it had changed the title of the French impressionist's turn-of-the-20th-century work, which is currently not on display. It is a pastel depicting troupes of dancers, which the artist was fascinated to see performing in Paris late in his life.
The yellow and blue of Ukraine's national colours are noticeable in what appear to be hair ribbons worn by the dancers and in garlands they are carrying."

"Among those welcoming the National Gallery's move was Mariia Kashchenko, the Ukrainian-born founder and director of Art Unit, which showcases emerging artists, including 21 Ukrainian artists at the moment.
"I understand that the term Russian art became an easy umbrella term which was useful but it's really important now to get things right. As a Ukrainian person, in the past I would have encountered times when I was called Russian, or where Ukrainian heritage was described as Russian," she said.
Criticism of UK cultural institutions has also come from Olesya Khromeychuk, the director of the Ukrainian Institute in London, who wrote last month in the German magazine Der Spiegel: "Every trip to a gallery or museum in London with exhibits on art or cinema from the USSR reveals deliberate or just lazy misinterpretation of the region as one endless Russia; much like the current president of the Russian Federation would like to see it."