Employees of Kyiv Cave Reserve Threaten To Complain to YUNESCO

Employees of the Kyiv Cave Reserve sent an open letter to the Ukrainian Premier with a request to reinstate the dismissed general director Viktoria Lisnycha. So reported the Ukrainian Truth.

The authors of the letter stressed that Lisnycha “defended [the employees] from the shameful treatment from the deputies imposed on her by the ministry.”

“She, on the other hand, was the only one who could not tolerate and turn a blind eye to the humiliation and shameful treatment of the whole personnel. Where is justice?” asked the employees.

If Azarov ignores the conflict, the reserve employees “will have to ask YUNESCO for help.”

“We will have to organize meetings and pickets because of the unlawful actions of the Ministry of Culture regarding the cadre policy of the reserve,” reads the employees’ statement read out at a press-conference last Monday.

The letter also says that the Ministry of Culture replaced three directors in the reserve during the last two years.   

“On direct instructions of the Ministry of Culture, positions in the reserve are given to people who are far from the museum business and culture on the whole. How can the minister of culture lobby someone who is a Playboy cover promoting her appointment to the position of the deputy general director in the largest Orthodox shrine!” reads the open letter to Premier Azarov.

The employees noted that the developments in the reserve look rather like a “seizure by raiders.”