On February 21, 2022, Olena and her friends who had just got their MBA diplomas, decided to go skiing in Georgia. A beautiful country famous for its hospitality, which goes well with their wine (which the real connoisseurs […]

Dmitri was on call at his hospital in Kyiv when the war broke out. He slept in the on-call room through the initial bombings and was woken up by a theatre nurse. “Wake up, wake up – the […]

On the 16th of February Denys was talking to his older daughter who lives in Israel and is training to be a Radiologist. Russians were massing up huge numbers of troops and firepower units at Ukraine border, and with […]

On the first day of war Iryna woke up at 5:25, when her phone made a sound of an incoming message.  “I will take a different route…”, it read. It was a friend who was normally giving her […]

Slava, short for Vyacheslav had studied religion and philosophy at a Kyiv University, and then San Francisco State University. He is a well-known scholar, who has written an academic book on the history of organised faiths and denominations, […]

I remember it as if it was yesterday. I was woken up by a call from my wife’s parents, who were living in Kiev at the time. They were both born in the city and were around to […]