Stories illustrated by Maryna Lutsyk
The ruins of newly created “zones of alienation” remind us of what we’ve lost, just like the empty high-rise buildings of Pripyat…
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed Russia to be a fragile state and a Potemkin great power in the process of disintegration…
Ukraine’s upcoming military defeat of Russia will set in motion the disintegration of the last remaining Russian empire…
In a country where you’re only allowed to speak in party slogans, it’s best to keep your mouth shut…
On that day, the sound of exploding shells whistling as they crashed into the center of Moscow woke me up…
Since the time when Total Fairness was established in Europe, Abraham had never again seen the sun on the streets of Paris…
The rupture of the Russian Federation will be the third phase of imperial collapse following the unravelling of the Soviet bloc and the disintegration
One icy December night the devil landed in St. Petersburg, the capital of the Russian Empire…
But perhaps losing Chornobyl to the occupier in the invasion showed its importance now that Kyiv has won it back.
“I told you from the very beginning it was a bad idea to come to this mudhole…”
