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“I need years of therapy.” Journalist Iryna Romaliiska on Russians, living between Czechia and Ukraine, and pregnancy loss: а deep (and painful) interview
Since 2018, Ukrainian journalist Iryna Romaliiska has served as an anchor and reporter for Current Time , an RFE/RL project aimed at Russian-speaking audiences. In August...
“Fermenting tomatoes in August means believing that January will come and you’ll eat them.” Anna Voloshyna on her new book, Ukraïne, and Ukrainian cuisine in America — interview
Anna Voloshyna is 36. She is a chef, cookbook author, and advocate for Ukrainian cuisine in America. The New York Times and The Washington Post have written about her, and her...
“We will all die in this war. Some of us just from old age.” Lyuba Shipovich on supporting the military and living between Ukraine and the US
In 2008, Lyuba Shipovich moved to the US because, after the Orange Revolution , she had lost faith that Ukraine would change. From 2015 to 2020, she returned to Ukraine for...
It started with dreams in a Lviv kitchen. Then came Mriya, which never flew over Venice. In the end, the voices of Ukrainians at war echoed at the Biennale. The story of Open Group
You may have seen the video : Ukrainians who survived shelling recreate the sounds of war using their own voices—the whistle of a missile, gunfire, explosions—and invite...
From diaspora roots to national scale: How Meest competes with Canada Post and DHL—an interview with Iryna Kisil
This piece is published as sponsored content in partnership with Meest. Meest began in Toronto in 1989, founded by Rostyslav and Anna Kisil as a small logistics bridge for...
“Traces”: the painful stories of women who survived violence during the war. How the director and the film’s protagonist turned their own pain into a way to help others
Ukraine has chosen its entry for the Oscars. It is the documentary “Traces,” directed by Alisa Kovalenko and Marysia Nikitiuk, a story about women who survived violence during...
Artist Pavlo Makov created Utopia and Lost Paradise. How his art reflects life — even the one that cannot be. A profile
Pavlo Makov’s works are held in world-renowned museums across Europe, the US, and Japan. In 2022, his installation Fountain of Exhaustion. High Water represented Ukraine...
“Someone has to make a photographer famous”: Serhii Melnychenko on MYPH, the war, and the international art market
Serhii Melnychenko began taking photographs in 2009, when he was 18. Just a few years later, his humorous photo series “ Schwarzenegger is my idol ” made him popular online,...