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  Designer sisters from Chernivtsi started with a home atelier. Today their wedding dresses are worn in Europe and the US. The Kotapska brand story — an interview.

  Chernivtsi natives Iryna Kotapska and Liudmyla Lipinska are designers, sisters, and business partners. In 2003, 22-year-old Iryna founded the bridal dress brand Kotapska ,...

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  Anna Gorbenko revived her organic food brand twice and entered the UK market. The lessons she learned — Interview

  In 2015, investment banker Anna Gorbenko founded Healing Taste , an organic vegan food producer, in Kyiv. Over 11 years, she has weathered multiple crises, the COVID-19...

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  Dodo Socks: one of Ukraine’s best-known sock brands and beyond. How two IT specialists turned a hobby into a business that expanded to Japan — an interview

  In 2015, colleagues from an IT company, Marta Turetska and Andrii Pliasun, started sending warm socks to the front . But every pair was gray and plain. Marta and Andrii...

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  Bessarabian restaurant Tatar Bunar in London drew the attention of Michelin and Bloomberg in 11 months. Co-owner Anna Andriienko explains how

  Kyiv native Anna Andriienko studied Business Law at  Tilburg University in the Netherlands and initially planned to build a legal career. After returning to Kyiv in 2015, she...

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  “It was supposed to be just a dacha.” A veteran and volunteer couple created the Green Grove farm, where soldiers recover thanks to animals

  Located in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Green Grove (Zelenyi Hai) farm has been welcoming visitors since 2021. Its founders, Evgenia Molchanova and Anatoliy Pilipenko,...

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  Canadian journalist created the Saint Javelin brand, donates millions to tactical medicine, and informs followers about the war in Ukraine. Interview with Christian Borys

  Eight days before Russia’s full-scale invasion, Christian Borys, a Canadian of Ukrainian-Polish descent, began selling stickers featuring the Virgin Mary wielding a ...

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  “The most fascinating thing in life is exploring how the brain works”: An interview with a Ukrainian scientist in the US

  Vira Iefremova, 36, has been driven by a passion for science since childhood. Though she initially dreamed of the stars, a high school biology lesson redirected her...

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  Ukrainian Volodymyr Kinash launched a real estate agency in Spain. How he sells homes to global clients and what it costs — an interview

  Lviv native Volodymyr Kinash experienced the economic hardships of the 1990s post-USSR collapse , with his family relying on their village garden for sustenance. А physically...