In Limbo in Tbilisi
Memoir / A reported personal narrative about the Russian exiles in Tbilisi in the wake of Russia's full-scale invasion. Excerpt (read the...
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Voices of Ukraine, Season 2, Episode 6: Fantasies from Azovstal – Zoya Laktionova Remembers Mariupol
Audio / Zoya Laktionova recalls her Mariupol childhood, her relationship with Ukrainian language and culture, and her journey to become a...
Voices of Ukraine, Season 2, Ep. 5: Immoral People
Audio / Ukrainian writer and journalist Nikita Grigorov tells the story of being a university student studying Russian literature at...
Mystery of the Disappearing Teepee
Essay / I write about a mysterious teepee in Inwood Hill Park and about my experiences living in Inwood as an immigrant in the 1990s....
Voices of Ukraine, Season 2, Ep. 4: Covering 2014 Donbas: A Spanish-Language Perspective
Audio / Spanish journalist Argemino Barro was one of the only foreign correspondents in Donbas when Russia ramped up its destabilization...
Voices of Ukraine, Season 2, Episode 3: No Ordinary Fourteen-Year-Old
Audio / Tanya Kotelnykova was fourteen years old when Russian-backed separatists occupied Horlivka, her hometown in Eastern Ukraine....
Voices of Ukraine Season 2, Episode 2: Donetsk Was My Second Home
Audio / Christopher Atwood lived in Donetsk in the early 2010s and found himself working in Russia during its initial invasion of Ukraine...
Voices of Ukraine Season 2, Episode 1: How History Smells
Audio / Katia Shraga Davydenko was born in Kyiv in the 1960s. She immigrated to New York in 1992. Since 2014, she has dedicated all her...
Voices of Ukraine Season Finale, Episode 12: Waiting for Ukraine
Audio / Daniel Brennan was a Peace Corps volunteer in Hlukhiv, Ukraine when was forced to evacuate because of the pandemic. He's been...
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 11: Mark Andryczyk on Translating Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s Mondegreen: Songs
Audio / An interview with Mark Andryczyk, the translator of displaced Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Rafeyenko.
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 10: : How Many Letters to You. On Ukrainian Composer Ivan Nebesnyy
Audio / Ivan Nebesnyy is a renowned Ukrainian composer whose music we’ve been using in Voices of Ukraine. Learn about his background and...
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 9: In Conversation with The Kyiv Independent’s Lili Bivings
Audio / The Kyiv Independent’s Contributing Editor Lili Bivings discusses the state of journalism in Ukraine.
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 8: In Conversation With The Kyiv Independent's Toma Istomina
Audio / The Kyiv Independent's Deputy Chief Editor Toma Istomina talks with the site's contributing editor Lili Bivings about being...
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 7: In Conversation With the Kyiv Independent's Olga Rudenko
Audio / The Kyiv Independent's editor-in-chief Olga Rudenko talks with the site's contributing editor Lili Bivings about her reaction to...
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 6: Pronouncing Kyiv and the Politics of Speaking Ukrainian
Audio / Linguist Yuri Shevchuk discusses the pronunciation of the Ukrainian capital and the political significance of speaking Ukrainian.
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 5: Dissolved and Absorbed
Audio / Olena Martynyuk was seven months pregnant and living in the U.S. when Russia invaded Ukraine. Her parents are in Ukraine and...
Episode 4: Will This Be the Parting, Goodbye?
Audio / Peter Zalmayev evacuated his wife and two small children to Western Ukraine and traveled back toward Kyiv to report on the war.
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 3: Time Stops During War
Audio / After Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian scholar Antonina Berezovenko stayed in Kyiv in spite of the constant shelling.
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 2: The Fight for Independence
Audio / Mariya Chukhnova immigrated to the U.S. and watched Ukraine’s transformation, and now the war, from afar.
Voices of Ukraine, Episode 1: No Comfort in a Safe Place
Audio / On his scheduled wedding day, Serhii Tereshchenko evacuated to Lviv with his fiancée and her sister.
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