Russia appropriated our balalaika and accordion - Ukrainian conductor
Ukraine is the birthplace of all Russian folk instruments without exception. Ukrainian conductor, artistic director of the National Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments Viktor Gutsal said this in an interview with the Kraina magazine, who spoke about his work in Soviet times. “We went to a concert in Kazakhstan. On one bus there are artists, on the second there are costumes and instruments. The roads are such that you can’t even see them.…