Ukrainian lives matter. You’re not encouraged to speak about it, because today it is geopolitics and war that are fashionable, and when it comes down to these two…
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The monkey is always right. How we all turned into a perfect tool
Physically a man is much inferior to a monkey: in agility, mobility and in jaw strength. Monkeys are capable of grabbing with all four limbs, jumping at times…
Crib notes from Kirghiz to Petro Poroshenko
Although today’s Ukraine creates its national myth on the basis of two coups, called the “revolutions”, the most revolutionary nation on open spaces of the former USSR are…
Petro Poroshenko’s criminal cases
It is virtually impossible to compile the full list of criminal cases initiated against Poroshenko after the end of his term. Some of these cases were closed, but…
Mambet’s lives matter
In Almaty, which didn’t lose its status of a capital even after the administrative capital of Kazakhstan has officially been moved to the city of Astana-Nursultan, there is such a word, used by locals – the mambets. The word is commonly referred to as semi-destitute, undereducated citizens of Kazakhstan, who have lost touch with the pastoralist traditions and rushed to the big cities in search of happiness – meaning to find a job for sustenance and survival. Something like the Ukrainian version of rednecks, but really deprived and marginalized. And this is the real future for the Ukrainian “rednecks” after the Ukrainian agricultural lands have been sold.
