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Gogolfest Returns with La Fura dels Baus
This year Gogolfest will host a performance from the cutting edge Spanish theatre company
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Mammoth (in English)
Directed by Lukas Moodysson
Drama, Comedy USA 2009
Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Michelle Williams, Marife Necesito
Leo and Ellen are a successful New York couple, totally immersed in their work. Leo is the creator of a booming website, and has stumbled into a world of money and big decisions. Ellen is a dedicated emergency surgeon who devotes her long shifts to saving lives.
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Casanova of the Cigar World
 Stumbling across a rather debonair figure in the Kyiv business community, What’s On sat down with Konstyantyn Loskutnikov – better known as Baron von Bossner. Famous the world over as an incredible cigar manufacturer, this Russian expat is now living in Germany, and coming to Kyiv for the Cigar Club’s Summer Big Smoke, that’s exactly where we found him.
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Who’s Killing the Animals at the Zoo? |
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For months this story has been making big news in the local press, and as usual, things are not as they seem. Slowly but surely, the animals at Kyiv Zoo are dying, most in very suspicious circumstances.
Last year we reported on the fun story about an army of foreign experts coming to Kyiv Zoo to cut the toenails of its showcase animal, Boy the elephant. But sadly, a few months later, Boy was dead, apparently the victim of poisoning. Now his friend Samka the Rhino spends most of her days depressed and lonely in her adjacent enclosure.
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Numerous other animals have died since then, including a camel, a bison and a zebra. According to animal rights activists, the number of animals in the zoo has almost halved over the last two years, and many are blaming the conditions in which they are kept.
However, the zoo sits on a massive area of prime real estate, and a zoo without any animals isn’t a zoo anymore. Critics are pointing the finger at the management of the zoo and the city administration, claiming they are in the midst of a shady attempt to privatise the land. City officials deny the claims. But then, they would, wouldn’t they?
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Get Out and Go Gogoling
As one of Ukraine’s biggest and best festivals showcasing all that is great about the artistic world, the fourth annual Gogolfest is back with increasing depth and intensity. In remembrance to the writer, playwright and carrier of that very name, Gogol’s influence as a creative force is recognised every September. And with the event’s old venue (Mystetskiy Arsenal) overshadowed by our country’s illustrious Dovzhenko Studios, that commemoration has certainly got bigger and better this year.
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Book ‘Em Danylo
With more and more internationals making paths across Ukraine’s border, Kyiv’s police force has been getting out and cleaning up the city’s streets. And while this would typically be a welcome respite to the complete lack of attention residents often receive from City Administration, our boys in blue seem to be focusing in on all the wrong people. To find out just what’s been going on, the What’s On team have put on our night vision goggles and dusted off our super hearing enhancement devices and gone on a mission…
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