Month: October 2013

A very British response to Femen

Ukraine’s infamous activists ‘Femen’ recently announced that they would establish themselves in the UK.

Sara Pascoe explored the subject in this week’s ‘Now Show

A flower licking bee, and ‘star’ the cow

The first time I visited Vinnitsa, I laughed because someone has written “Crazy Vinnitsa girl”, in English, along the side of the train station.

Well, they might be crazy, but they are obviously talented too!

I stumbled across this little award winner on Facebook and although Google did a bad job translating the article (http://www.0432.ua/news/406110), you don’t need to speak Ukrainian to understand that its genius. It is deeply Ukrainian (singing woman+cat!), and amusingly bonkers.

The flower-licking bee is my favorite.

Well done Darinka

Oh la la

A Ukrainian Public Health Campaign

A Ukrainian Public Health Campaign

…click the link to see how they work out in Kyiv when they’re not eating ukrop and salo.

Social workers

…it’s a difficult subject, but as usual Mr Evans captures the atmosphere, personalities and adventure with skill, and in doing so, he shines a little light on one of the darker issues Ukraine.

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