Yuliana Skibitska

Editor

I was born and raised in Zaporizhzhia and worked in journalism since 2012. I started my career at the local wired station Radio Try and the newspaper Mriya. In 2014, I moved to Kyiv and worked for the newspaper Segodnya, Hromadske TV, wrote for Ukrainska Pravda, Charitum, Liga.net, The Guardian, PenOpp, and others.

In 2019, I joined Babel as an editor, later became a deputy editor-in-chief at Zaborona, and then returned to Babel. In 2020, I won the Honour of the Profession award in the Constructive Journalism category.

Currently, I teach two courses for aspiring journalists at Kyiv Media School and collaborate with the History Unit project by n-ost.

Publications of the author

“My job is to prevent time from erasing the evidence.” Dariia Martyniuk is a conservator at Auschwitz-Birkenau. We spoke with her about how to preserve memory
In the conservation laboratories of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum , specialists dedicate themselves to preserving one of humanity’s most tragic historical records:...
“War is always a poison for democracy.” Nobel Laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk on human rights defense and justice that cannot exist without humanity
Oleksandra Matviichuk is 42 years old. She has been involved in human rights defense for twenty of those years. During the Euromaidan , the organization led by Matviichuk...
“Material has memory—and it will be evidence of the Russian Federation’s crimes against Ukraine.” Artist Zhanna Kadyrova on war as a reality that defines everything. An interview
Zhanna Kadyrova is one of the most prominent Ukrainian artists. In her works, she has frequently engaged with urban space, and since 2022, she has been speaking about and...
Herhel Clinic — a cosmetology clinic in Poland, founded by a Ukrainian couple. It is valued at $4 million. How the founders built it — interview
Alina and Danylo Herhel from Dnipro are a married couple and business partners. In 2013, they moved to Warsaw, where Alina began seeing clients as a cosmetologist in a private...
“Everything is born out of chaos and chaos becomes a pattern.” Anarchist and artist Nikita Kravtsov on emigration, murals, Paris, and the war — a long interview
Ukrainian artist Nikita Kravtsov is a prominent figure on the global underground art scene . Nikita was born in Yalta into a family of architects, graduated from the...
“We need to be loud to drown out Russian wails.” Ukraine’s Minister of Culture Tetyana Berezhna on the biennale, cultural diplomacy, and Ukrainians abroad
Tetyana Berezhna is 37; she joined the Ukrainian government in June 2022—taking on the position of Deputy Minister of Economy. Berezhna’s background was fitting—she was...
“Gaining useful skills abroad is not enough.” Maryna Starodubska on the national culture of Ukrainians. Ep. 6 of the “HERE&THERE” podcast
Maryna Starodubska has been studying cross-cultural interaction for years. In the fall of 2024, she released the book “How to Understand Ukrainians: A Cross-Cultural...
A Ukrainian niche perfume brand is conquering Europe and Canada. Bibliotheque de Parfum co-founder Lora Nekrasova explains how she did it
Bibliotheque de Parfum is a Ukrainian niche perfume brand founded in 2019 by Kharkiv entrepreneur Lora Nekrasova . With the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion ...

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