And since there are no such skills, the answers to the question of how to end the war don’t go far from the promises about the cheap gas. “Samopomich” thinks that the war can be ended by force. O. Vikul…
The most difficult thing for yesterday’s slaves was to take responsibility for their lives. It turned out that people find it difficult to live without someone who will tell them when to wake up when to eat, what to wear…
For years, stylists, bloggers, and other self-nominated fashion experts kept telling us that silk scarves are long dead and gone. The advice to “add a silk scarf” was a kind of meme that reflected the archaic approach to the outfit,…
Musical film is a vile construction, given our context. Since there’s nothing more dated, bulkier and pedestrian than layered “musical-dramatical” plays and the same film. Especially when the action of Yaroslav Barnych’s operetta “Hutsulka Ksenia” unfolds in the Carpathian village,…
It’s worth saying that in times of my youth, there was such a fool joke concerning those men and boys who didn’t serve in the army. For health reasons, for example. Because in times of total conscription, those who didn’t…
For Ukrainians, the beginning of spring is special, because along with the first birds and delicate flowers, Shevchenko days come to us. The days, when once again, we become aware of our uniqueness, beauty, depth, and luxury of spirit and nature.…
Zhvanetsky is Odesa and I agree with that. The question is which Odesa? Odesa of what period? I believe it is Odesa of the sixties-eighties, the Russian-Jewish Odesa which is no longer there. Zhvanetsky is one of those few who…
Serhiyovych lives in the “gray zone” (a transparent metaphor). Just two people live in a half-destroyed Donetsk village now – in darkness and relative solitude. The village is located in the demarcation zone, influenced by the DPR and Ukrainian army.…
Everyone was at home, even the elder brother arrived from a college in the evening. Mom told him that tomorrow I have a birthday. My brother asked me how old I was. I was rustling with a wrap from candies “Pilot”,…