Galina is a theatre director active in the theatre collective “Post Play Teatr”, located in an old factory building in Kyiv. The collective was founded by refugees from Crimea and Eastern Ukraine. She was involved in pro-Ukrainian activism in the spring of 2014 when her native Crimea was annexed by…
Category: Ukraine
Vitaly is a miner in one of Arcelor Mittal’s giant mines in Krivy Rih. The city is one of the longest in the world and the capital of the so-called Kryvbas, one of the largest iron ore mining centres in Europe. It is also the place where current president Volodymyr…
These kids just finished high school and were celebrating until the early morning hours at the Dnipro river bank in Kyiv. They were talking about all the plans they had for their life after school. Serhi wanted to become a coder, while his friend Olha planned on working in PR.…
Oleksandr remembers well the alarm his hometown Dnipro was in in the spring of 2014, when Russian backed separatists started to take over parts of the Donbas. Dnipro was the largest Ukrainian city close to the Donbas and much of the Ukrainian resistance was organised there. Local oligarchs like Ihor…