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“Two Ukraines” and Euromaidan
The Jordan Center welcomed Ukrainian historian Andrii Portnov on Tuesday, April 15th for a discussion of the dominant media and political narrative which has emerged to describe the ongoing crisis...
Ukraine’s ‘far east’: on the effects and genealogy of Ukrainian Galician reductionism
In the context of the current war, faith in the idea of national ‘purity’ often comes couched in rationalist terms, positing no known cure for the Soviet hangover in the...
The Paralympic Games’ Cinderella Story: Ukraine
It is critical that the disability rights movement in Ukraine find ways to ride the Paralympic wave of success.
Dnipro. Writing and Reading the City’s Biography in a Time of War
My book, “Dnipro. An Entangled History of a European City,” was published a year ago, in the middle of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. I neither expected nor wanted such a political context for my book.
The Ramp to Nowhere? Disability in Contemporary Russia
Given the deeply entrenched obstacles—physical, social, cultural, material— to participation in public life by people with disabilities, whatever mention is made is still noteworthy.