Minsk: Sasha and Korpus kulturtsenter
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Belarus, December 2017 Nearly three decades ago the Sovjet Union disintegrated, fragmenting into a multitude of states, each developing their own way. I...
The future of the Polonyna
2021 7 Ukraine: Kryvorivnya, Verkhovyna, Rakhiv, Ust Chorna. “I would like to combine two worlds for myself. One world centres around keeping the cows, how...
Why did you not leave?
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...
Ukraine revisited after 6 months of war
2022 8 Ukraine Ushgorod Rybnyk Schagen The war is 6 months old and after long deliberations (with my wife) I finally get a feel for...
All is quiet on the eastern front
Ukraine Donbas February 2019 Slovyansk, Kurakhove, Avdivka, Mariupol.
Video available below article, scroll down In the forgotten trenches of Europe, war is grinding into its sixth...
To wake up in another country in your own bed.
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...
Svetlana, Olga and Diana, Platskart
Railroads are the arteries of Ukraine Western Ukraine, August 2016
“No time to print your ticket!” the platinum blond station attendant tells me through the small...
Fall down and get up
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...
Civil support for ZSU (Ukrainian Army)
2023 11 Ukraine Tyachiv Drohobych Lviv Misha has been at the frontline for nearly a year. I meet him on a freezing day at the...
The invisible and the Samaritans
Scotland, UK, Edinburgh, December 2019
A tale of two cities
The Christmas market in Edinburgh lights up the Princess Street Gardens. It is noisy and busy....