Victoria Yakusha is a 44-year-old mother of four from Dnipro. She survived meningitis, a coma, and cancer. And currently, her design creations are sold in 40 showrooms...
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
How Ukrainian Media Manager Anna Ganopolska Opened Papoila Bar in Lisbon — in her own words
Anna Ganopolska, originally from Kyiv, began her media career in 2007, straight after her first year at the Faculty of Journalism. Soon after, she joined the founding team of ...
A native of Brovary, 44-year-old Iryna Solomko Bonenberger is a journalist, documentarian, communications specialist, and mother of two. In 1998, she entered the Institute...
Daria Kolomiec is 37. She is a DJ, host, activist and cultural diplomat, the author and producer of Diary of War . What began as an audio diary of Ukrainians during the war...
Ukrainian startup Rekava was founded in 2021 by economist Yurii Tustanovskyi and research engineer Dmytro Bidiuk, who developed a biodegradable material from used coffee...
Maria Lesnikova is 37 years old. Since her youth, she was passionate about modern art, and in 2016, she discovered a new approach to nutrition. She studied it and later...
A tailored suit, a sharp tie, gleaming polished shoes, and a piercing look behind glasses. The image of 73-year-old Sergei Sviatchenko is just as recognizable as the style...
Serhii Denisov was born in Batumi but grew up in Donetsk. Now 32, he began working in the industry at 19, quickly rising from waiter to sous chef . When Russia started the...
