Global context of war
The civilised world can hardly be called a comfort zone anymore due to the migration crisis, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, economic instability and the continuing Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian tanks in Ukraine and daily attacks on Ukrainian civilians prove...
Art
Until 2006, almost all films screened in Ukrainian theatres were exclusively dubbed in Russian, and few could have ever imagined that dubbing in Ukrainian was possible. And, while by 2014 few Ukrainian movies were successfully making film distribution deals, now...
Education
In 2014 an influential academic library moved from Luhansk, which was occupied by Russian terrorist groups, to the small city of Starobilsk. All they had back then were documents, a rubber stamp and no books at all. In order to...
Museums
The great multi-disciplined festival of modern art StartUp GogolFest has taken place since 2018 in Mariupol, where each spring hundreds of people from all over Ukraine go. For that purpose, Bogdan Yaremchuk and Denys Uhorchuk created an art train, which...
Art
The village of Petrykivka is known for the eponymous traditional painting style — Petrykivka painting (or simply "Petrykivka"). Historically, people used it to decorate house walls, musical instruments and household items. Nowadays, these painting elements can be seen on a...
Education
The Ostroh Academy is one of the first successful examples of educational revival in Ukraine that doesn’t try to replicate the old Soviet system and leans on the long-standing traditions of Ukrainian education instead. The university in Ostroh has been...
