Social reporting

These are longer stories on social issues, that take some time to read. Also they differ as they tend to go deeper in a specific subject and give more context. The topic is always a social issue.

To wake up in another country in your own bed.

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Estonia, Narva, Paldinski, July 2018 In your own house, in your own bed: in the morning you wake up and suddenly you are in a...

Roots and identity, tradition and change

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March 2018 Taroudant/Marrakech Morocco In the Sidi Ayoub area of the Medina (the town inside the city walls) of Marrakesch Abderrazzak El Maana unexpectedly...

Fall down and get up

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Serbia, Obenovac, February 2018 I meet Goran Mitrovic in Obenovac, an hour drive from Belgrade. Now 57 his life coincides with the most turbulent periods...

Why did you not leave?

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Serbia February 2018 When emigrants come back to Serbia this question "why did you not leave" is not uncommon amongst the generation that grew up...

Maria Bakalo in Lviv

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Ukraine, Lviv, December 2017  2018 Lviv Lead picture: Maria Bakalo (Masha) during a rehearsal of a new performance. I met Masha in 2016 and revisited her...

Saint Nicolas song

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Sad Flower Saint Nicholas celebration December 15th 2017 Drohobich Ukraine See for the full story Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicolas: private small scale charity in Ukraine

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Ukraine, Lviv, Drohobych, December 2017 Contrasts in celebration of a children's holiday The birthday of Saint Nicholas which falls on the 6th December is the biggest...

Soviet style corruption still prevails at state university in Lviv.

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Ukraine, Lviv, December 2017 Exam time at Ivano Franko State University Lviv: a classroom where students are divided into two rows and a lecturer who’s...

Minsk: Sasha and Korpus kulturtsenter

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Living in Belarus Belarus, December 2017 Nearly three decades ago the Sovjet Union disintegrated, fragmenting into a multitude of states, each developing their own way. I...

Kovbasa krovjanka and farsherovanii perets in Drohobich

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Ukrainian hospitality Drohobich, Ukraine, August 2016 The Ukrainian language is not easy to master but I have decided to learn its basics, at least. In western...