for understanding Ukrainian history. Here are four books, and one album, which traverse Ukraine’s geography, literature, music and food, exploring the country on its own terms, not Mr Putin’s.Ukraine’s complicated history is expressed through its cities. Evenreflect the external forces that have shaped the country: the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, for example, has at various points been referred to as Lvov , Lwow and Lemberg .
Sophie Pinkham provides a very different form of travelogue in her reflective and humorous memoir about modern Ukrainian life. Ms Pinkham spent ten years living in both Ukraine and Russia, having first travelled to the ex-Soviet region as a volunteer for the Red Cross in Siberia. Major historical events marked this decade, including the Maidan revolution in 2014, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of war in the Donbas.
Contemporary Ukrainian literature boasts several leading lights, including Oksana Zabuzhko and Andrey Kurkov (who recently wrote three essays for our sister publication,
Multilingual? Yeah they just prohibited everyone to talk any other language... what a joke
Their culture is really amazing
What about how they are largely unvaccinated by choice? Wasn’t that the mark of an uncivilised society? That said “to hell with the science and their fellow man?” At least, that’s what you said about the unvaccinated in the west. Deceitful, hypocritical MSM whiners.