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  “The horrors of 2022 have already been forgotten. We must constantly remind people of them.” Journalist Kristina Berdynskykh on how to work with foreign media. Interview

  Kristina Berdynskykh is 43 years old. She was born in Kherson, but she built her journalistic career in Kyiv. She worked at Korrespondent magazine before joining Novoye...

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  “Art always falls short of the reality of war.” Ukrainian artist Lesia Khomenko on violence and her journey from Kyiv to New York

  Artist Lesia Khomenko is one of the key figures in contemporary Ukrainian art and a co-founder of the R.E.P. group, which emerged in response to a new political reality...

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  Alexandra Alissa Novitchkova built an academic career in Ukraine, left it for human rights advocacy, and now teaches in Canada. In her own words

  Scientist and human rights activist Alexandra Alissa Novitchkova is 46 years old. She graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (KMA) and pursued postgraduate studies. In 2005,...

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  Ukrainian photographer Sasha Maslov used to shoot celebrities in New York, and now—the war in Ukraine. A portrait of a person who takes portraits

  Nineteen years ago, a young photographer from Kharkiv, Sasha Maslov, arrived in New York to pursue his own American Dream. And it came true: Sasha photographed David Lynch and...

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  From a coffee scrub to a $2 million factory. How Lutsk-based Mr.SCRUBBER grew into a multi-brand company exporting to Europe and the Middle East

  In 2015, two friends from Lutsk, Vitalii Tkachuk and Serhii Kashuba, launched the cosmetics brand Mr.SCRUBBER. They started with a single product: coffee scrubs. Over nearly...

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  How Ukrainians are teaching Canadians to drink drip coffee. An Interview with the owners of Hutsul Coffee Factory

  Yuliia Konarieva and Artur Konariev are a Ukrainian couple who moved to London , Canada, in 2023. There, Artur, who had long been interested in coffee, began experimenting...

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  “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:...

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  Galyna Solovei studied in South Korea, contributed to education reform in Ukraine, and taught in Kyiv, Amsterdam, and Madrid. Here is how she managed to do it

  Galyna Solovei is 47 years old. She studied philosophy, took part in reforming Ukraine’s education system, trained in international development policy in South Korea, and...