Cultural events on the territory of the occupied part of the Donetsk region receive significantly less attention in the Ukrainian mass media than the topic of Russian disinformation and political propaganda in the region.

At the same time, cultural policy is mainly aimed at consolidating this propaganda – in particular, as regards the heroization of the terrorist fighters of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic”, as well as the increasing integration of the “DPR” into the cultural space of the Russian Federation. Grants from the Kremlin’s Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives play a significant role in this.