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28 February - 6 March 2014

Ukraine History

A Stronghold of Rulers and Rebels

With the recent death toll jumping to nearly 100 and 1,000 injured, Hrushevskoho Street, one of the strongholds of EuroMaidan’s three-month-long protests, made headlines around the globe. It was here, on 19 January the country’s stand against government corruption, abuse of power, and the violation of human rights turned from peaceful protest to all-out revolution. Having witnessed much over the years, Hrushevskoho is a street with a history, and not only care of recent days.

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Ukraine Today
Acelebrity using their status and intelligence to influence public views and opinion is rarely seen in modern society, even less so in Ukraine. Here, the majority of celebs use their time, effort, and money to enhance or further their career rather than put their name to something that can do good for others. However, as EuroMaidan intensifies, some are making themselves heard – and they fall either side of the EuroMaidan divide.
It used to be that when rebellion and revolution occurred, the intellectual, creative, and spiritual elite would be front and centre.

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Ukrainian Culture

When Walls Can Talk

People have been writing on walls since the dawn of civilisation, we call it graffiti, and ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Sometimes it is merely the creator wanting to leave his or her mark; sometimes there is an underlying social or political reason. And it is due to the latter that graffiti has exploded across Kyiv in recent months. Anti dictator messages aside, we peel back a few layers of paint to look at graffiti in the city in general.

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Special Feature

What's On Is Taking a Break!

Dear readers, advertisers, partners, and friends,

Over the last few months, as things have worsened, so have our revenues due to losses in advertising. It is for this reason we have to announce that this issue of What’s On is going to be the last, for what we hope is a short while. We want to stress, we are not closing. We have always firmly believed in What’s On’s importance to the community, and after a brief pause we intend to bring What’s On back to continue being the publication that the people of Kyiv have loved reading for 16 years.
During this pause we will be communicating with you all, to find out what kind of What’s On you want to see when we return. What have we done wrong? What have we done right? Why is What’s On important to you? Please let us know by e-mail (write to ) – we promise to read and consider every one of your comments and take them on board as we plan to come back. Importantly, we will be communicating with those who in fact pay for the magazine, the advertisers, to find out what they want and need from us too.
PAN Publishing has owned What’s On for the last five and a half years, and it truly has been an honour and a pleasure. We look forward to when we can bring your magazine back to you. That said, should someone else decide that they would like to purchase the title from us, take it forward in their own direction, and have the pleasure of owning this title, we are prepared to listen to sensible offers. You can use the same e-mail address to contact us on this question.
It’s time for a new direction, whether that’s with What’s On under our ownership or otherwise. It’s time for a new direction for Ukraine. We see great things ahead now, a brief pause to take stock of our surroundings is necessary, to analyse our situation, to see what people want, and to act on that, delivering something even better for What’s On, for Ukraine, for everyone.
Slava. Slava. Slava.

Paul, Neil and Lana

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Ukraine Truth
Rights We Didn’t Know We Had

Throughout EuroMaidan much has been made of Ukrainians making a stand for their rights. What exactly those rights are were never clearly defined. Ukraine ratified the Univer­sal Declaration of Human Rights in 1952. The first article of the Declaration states all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights, they are endowed with reason and conscience, and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. The ousted and overthrown Ukrainian government showed to the world they don’t understand the meaning of these words.


Kyiv Culture

Pulling Strings
Located on Hrushevskoho Street – the epicentre of EuroMaidan violence, home to battles, blazes and barricades – children’s favourite the Academic Puppet Theatre had to shut down in February. Nevertheless, it is getting ready to reopen this March with a renewed repertoire to bring some laughter back to a scene of tragedy. Operating (not manipulating) puppets is a subtle art that can make kids laugh and adults cry. What’s On meets Mykola Petrenko, art director of the Theatre, to learn more about those who pull the strings behind the show.

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