Tag: Ukraine

Maria Prymachenko: An Artist for Our Times

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Art

Maria Prymachenko: An Artist for Our Times

She is the most famous Ukrainian artist. She painted, drew, decorated ceramics, and embroidered. Her designs appeared on postage stamps and coins. Maria Prymaczenko continues to inspire artists around the world to this day.

Kacha Szaniawska

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Opinions

Crimson Ink

Artists understand the primordial essence of being human, as well as the power and symbolism of the red fluid that runs through our veins.

Stach Szabłowski

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Fiction

Boys

In this extract from Artem Chekh’s book “Absolute Zero”, the author gives an account of his experiences as a soldier visiting a town in Eastern Ukraine affected by the war in Donbas.

Artem Chekh

A Utopia in Pieces

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Experiences

A Utopia in Pieces

If you travel around Ukraine today, you might come across some remnants of the one-time Soviet dream: elaborate mosaic art depicting idealized citizens of the USSR.

Tetiana Shataieva

Sometimes I Dream About the War

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Experiences, Opinions

Sometimes I Dream About the War

Artem Chekh, a Ukrainian writer and veteran of the war in Donbas, talks about his experiences at the front and how they changed his worldview from the bubble of Kyiv.

Łukasz Saturczak

One Happy Family

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Experiences

One Happy Family

The courtyard as a socio-cultural phenomenon was a product of the Soviet urban development policy, and aimed to bring all neighbours together. While kids were playing, parents were chatting in the gazebo or knocking dust out of their carpets on the horizontal bar in the corner.

Tetiana Shataieva

Tell Them That We Are Starving

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Experiences

Tell Them That We Are Starving

In this unpublished translation from Mirosław Wlekły’s “Gareth Jones: The Man Who Knew Too Much”, the journalist recounts his conservations with communists and peasants as he heads from Moscow to Soviet Ukraine.

Mirosław Wlekły

This Song Is About Life

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Experiences

This Song Is About Life

Maniucha Bikont talks about her travels collecting traditional folk songs in the Polesia region of Central and Eastern Europe.

Agata Trzebuchowska