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“Слава Україні” sounds very much like “Слава Украине”
The popular theory was that this was the start of the inevitable and fast fall of the Russian Empire. I still don’t know how those people were measuring “fast.” Read More »
Listen to an Unprofessional Ukrainian
I remember meeting my brother at the kamvolni. His face streaked with blood, one eye swollen, clothes torn...Read More »
Hair and Lip Fillers Off, Chest Flattened — I Go to See My Folks
People don’t really clock me: neighbors, shopkeepers — no clue I’m trans.Read More »
My Mom Has Dementia — and Soon I Might Too
My mother always said: “If something happens to me, take me to a care center without guilt...”Read More »
Yet Another Night of Shelling: Reporting from Kyiv
We never managed to reach other districts—it was already dark, and a new air-raid alert had been declared.Read More »
Don’t Forget to Remember: Dementia Is No Priority for Armenian Health Care
Most often, we learn about the illness from the caregivers. They look exhausted, limit their social lives, struggle with depression and burnout..Read More »
There is No Such Thing as Documentary
...we are afraid to show our confusion in public, but much depends on how we respond to it.Read More »
Samvel’s Campaign Cash, Robert’s Map, Nikol’s Sorrow, and Gagik’s Christ
What’s going on in pre-election Armenia?Read More »
KGB stayed the KGB: “Talk to the nachalnik, then take a walk”
“The chance to speak Russian without an accent” — that’s how the chief explained his curiosity about our company. We, for our part, admitted that we’d never before shared a table with an officer of the Russian FSB.Read More »
Not everybody can become an entrepreneur: Shamshadin
“The only thing this government has done right is asphalt.”Read More »