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How Can We Prevent a Metastasis of Fear?

“Physical danger is easier to accept than sensory danger,” writes journalist, founder of Ukraïner, and Ukrainian servicemember Bogdan Logvynenko. In this essay, he invites Ukrainians to look at their fears both up close and from the perspective of the years...

Are Ukrainians capable of turning experience into knowledge?

“The courage to have your own opinion is a hallmark of this moment in Ukraine,” says Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta, cultural scholar and director of Mystetskyi Arsenal. In this essay, she reflects on how institutions tasked with producing knowledge are caught in...

Is it possible to normalize war in a positive way?

“We have already normalized the war,” writes historian and author Olena Stiazhkina. In this essay, she explores why accepting the reality of war doesn’t mean making peace with its horrors, how routine can be a key to resilience, and whether...

Five women and a spring morning in Paris

Paris in May is incredibly beautiful after a morning rain. My calendar marks a long weekend, the city is half-empty, and my feet carry me on their own. The slow rhythm of the capital — still sleepy and as if...

How to exist in the radical simultaneity of challenges

What should Ukrainians be asking themselves nearly five years into the full-scale war, as they try to grasp their current place and how to begin shaping the future? It’s clear that both the questions and the answers relate to navigating...

Marci Shore: “I don’t believe in genetic immunity to fascism”

What was the miracle of the Revolution of Dignity? How did Donechchyna become the start of a new global conflict? Why do Russians struggle to form a protest movement? Find the answers to these questions and more in the latest...

Pekka Toveri: “The worst day on the front line is better than the best day under Russia”

What does it take to live next to Russia — and survive? Drawing on Finland’s experience, Pekka Toveri reflects on Europe’s security failures, the illusion of Russian military strength, and why preparedness — both military and societal — is the...

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