Category Archives: Ukraine

Two Night Trains to the East

Posted on 2020-02-23 by

I am calling them night trains on purpose, not sleeper trains, because when I booked the tickets, I couldn’t discern if there would be a bed, maybe even a shower, or with how many people I would share the dormitory … Continue reading →

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How Climate Change will end

Posted on 2020-01-31 by

Many big issues are at their heart debates between optimists and pessimists – with some pretentious self-declared realists thrown into the mix. This is also true about climate change. Will we develop carbon-neutral technologies? Or can we capture the carbon … Continue reading →

Posted in Belarus, Economics, Environment, Technology, Ukraine | Tagged , , | 7 Comments

Now, Christmas is really over

Posted on 2020-01-20 by

Most readers of this blog probably live in the Western churches’ (both reformed and unreformed) as well as the Gregorian calendar’s sphere of influence, where the three magicians already put an end to Christmas two weeks ago. But here, in … Continue reading →

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Uman: Communism or Cheesy Story?

Posted on 2020-01-17 by

There is really no reason to visit Uman. It is a small city like hundreds of others in Ukraine. But because it lies halfway between Kyiv and Odessa, I decided to break the journey and to spend a day and … Continue reading →

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“East West Street” by Philippe Sands

Posted on 2020-01-12 by

As a lawyer and budding historian, I found Philippe Sands‘ idea of telling the story of international criminal law through the biographies of Hersch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin interesting. But the book East West Street is overloaded with the irrelevant … Continue reading →

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Kyiv – Day 21/21 – Train Station

Posted on 2020-01-05 by

And the three weeks are over. Too bad. On the other hand, I like going to Kyiv’s main train station because it shows the way that train stations everywhere should aspire to: large, majestic, comfortable, open around the clock, and … Continue reading →

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Kyiv – Day 20/21

Posted on 2020-01-04 by

Yesterday was such a beautiful day that I went for a long walk. That long (and aimless), in fact, that I apparently walked far beyond the city limits of Kyiv. Because suddenly, it looked rather rural. And pretty. The whole … Continue reading →

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