One of the first points in my must-see list was, of course, the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. Yet, at its entrance, I was attacked by an evil Russian-speaking monk who said he would not allow me to enter the territory of…
When we’re children and went to school, to catch hell from teacher meant to get an additive from parents at home. The parents berated for having been berated at school. Modern moms stand up with a single front against the…
We wondered why did she need that bread?! We persuaded, “Come on, grandma, well, here’s fresh, crunchy bread, it’s soft, eat this one!” She said, “That’s for you kids, eat with pleasure, and I’ve got some here”… It seems that…
My great-grandma Yavdoshka recalled that when she had been a child, they’d even owned a pair of oxen and a small bee yard with two or three beehives. They also had a good set of tools. My great-grandpa Okhtanasiy ran…
Nonetheless, cinema critics of the Metacritic rated this picture 82/100 and there’s 94% of positive responses (122/130) on the omnipresent “Rotten Tomatoes”. The audience in the serious and sceptical Cannes met the picture with a round of five-minute applause. Why? Let’s start…
Let’s have a glimpse of November 21st and together see what the weather was then on the Independence Square. In Kyiv, it was clear then, around 9 degrees in the afternoon, and +6 +7 degrees in the evening. Periodically, there was…
It wasn’t mumbling in the queue to a doctor’s office, neither was it complaining in the tram, something like “everything is bad”. However, it was a fluent conversation of middle-aged people, who are in search of some solutions, some peculiar…
There was a joke in Soviet times. A deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR comes back home after a long session. He keeps silent. He doesn’t say a word. “Are you tired?”, the wife asks. The man raises…
Over time, I agreed with this theory, because everywhere I saw broken washbasins, dirty window sills, cabins, full of junk ‒ the theory was confirmed by the corresponding attitude of management and workers to people. In my life, there were…
And then, the seagull with furious muzzle fell down just from the sky, grabbed a hefty chicken leg and started gulping it, taking off with this load. The girl who brought food to the tables managed to slap the seagull…