At 49, Mykola Kobetiak has worked in the food industry for 22 years. Over 22 years, he’s worked his way up from a merchandiser to a factory director. In 2021, Mykola and his...
Roksana Rublevska
Author
I was born in Uman and moved to Kyiv when I was 14. My father worked in antique appraisal and inspired my love for art. I earned a degree in art history and later worked as a TV editor and screenwriter at Film.ua and Star Media. I have been in cultural journalism since 2015, writing for Forbes, Liga.net, Detector Media, Elle Ukraine, L’Officiel, Vogue, Novoe Vremya, and Babel. I was the editor of Art-Kursiv, an academic journal on contemporary art for three years. I also co-authored the art books 25 Years of Presence and 30 Years of Presence for ArtHuss and worked on artwork attribution for the Goldens auction house.
In 2019 and 2020, I received six journalism awards from PRESSZVANIE and Novamedia. I also managed the PR campaign for Bad Roads, a film by Natalka Vorozhbyt that won at the 2020 Venice Film Festival.
After the full-scale war began, I was forced to leave Ukraine and settled in Barcelona, Spain. I learned Spanish and completed a master’s degree in marketing, PR, and communications at UCJC University. Now, I write about Ukrainians who have pursued their dreams abroad.
Publications of the author
In 2020, Ukrainians Daria Shapovalova and Natalia Modenova decided to create the first digital clothing marketplace — DRESSX. There, users can try on digital garments from...
SkyUp Airlines was founded in 2018 by entrepreneurs Yurii and Oleksandr Alba. Just a year later, it ranked seventh on The Anker Report’s list of Europe’s fastest-growing...
In 2017, Pavlo Popko, then a student at the Lviv Academy of Arts, began selling handmade leather accessories on Etsy, the global marketplace for artisans of handcrafted goods....
In 2008, Kharkiv residents Vadym and Philip Gryshyn were working in the field of large-format printing. One day, they came across a cotton canvas usually used to create...
Maria Gavryluk and Natalia Kamenska are young Ukrainian designers. Natalia previously co-founded the clothing brand Lake Studio , where Maria began her career as an assistant...
At 47, Mykola Kabluka from Dnipro turned a borrowed $600 into Expolight, a company delivering multimillion-dollar projects around the world. He launched the business in 2000...
On August 28, 2022, in the heart of Dublin, at the Smock Alley Theatre , Ukrainian writer Halyna Budilova presented her latest book, The Sunflower Lion . This bilingual ...
