Forty-six-year-old Alla Lopatkina from the Ivano-Frankivsk region has never been afraid to take risks. At just 19, she turned her boyfriend’s bar into a restaurant and a few...
Roksana Rublevska
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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
An engineer by education, 40-year-old Philip Grishin was born and raised in Kharkiv. Over 17 years ago, he and his brother Vadym launched a business making DIY kits for...
For 36-year-old Olga Tsybytovska, London has always played a special part. Born in Dnipro, she was drawn to British culture from a young age. In 2005, she moved to Kyiv, where...
Join UP! is a Ukrainian tour operator founded in 2010 by entrepreneur Yurii Alba, Within just five years, it became a leader in its market segment thanks to attractive...
Ladó Agency is now among New York’s most dynamic PR firms, partnering with brands across Ukraine, the U.S., and Europe. Its founder, Armenian Lado Kostandian, is a true...
Kateryna Prykhodko has loved animals since childhood. Growing up on Sakhalin Island, she was surrounded by wild nature and the lifestyle of a small family farm. That childhood...
How Ukrainian Tonya Popova launched a unique product design showroom in The Hague — in her own words
Tonya Popova, originally from Lviv, moved to London in 2004, where she signed a contract with energy giant Shell and built a career in HR. In 2013, she accepted a position...
Today, Leo Hrabko is a trendy hairdresser in Manhattan. But the road to success was anything but easy. Born in Kherson, a small city in southern Ukraine, Leo grew up knowing...
