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Sad Flower Saint Nicholas celebration December 15th 2017 Drohobich Ukraine See for the full story Saint Nicholas

Minsk December 10th 2017 Studio of Вероника Чарковская Veronika Charkovskaya see her FB page Contact Improvisations Dancers Alexander and Catherine See also the article Minsk

December 2017 Sasha, leading force at Kulturtsentr Korpus in Minsk

Belarus December 2017  Minsk Customer at Kardash fashion gallery in Minsk Korpus Kulturtsentr. The centre hosts a number of small enterprises including a designer fashion...

Lviv, Ukraine December 2017 Rostyk and Uljana have had many jobs. Rostyk made music freelance and studied at University but at the same time traded...

Ukraine, Lviv, Drohobych, December 2017 Contrasts in celebration of a children's holiday The birthday of Saint Nicholas which falls on the 6th December is the biggest...

Ukraine, Lviv, December 2017 Exam time at Ivano Franko State University Lviv: a classroom where students are divided into two rows and a lecturer who’s...

Living in Belarus Belarus, December 2017 Nearly three decades ago the Sovjet Union disintegrated, fragmenting into a multitude of states, each developing their own way. I...

A start up business in leather goods in Lviv Ukraine, Lviv, December 2017 Natalya teaches at University and gives language lessons online. She was my teacher...

Auschwitz January 2016 My head is still full of my visit to Birkenau. What most impressed me was the vastness of the camp and what meager...

Destiny Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2016 Simone looks up from her work to me through the open door of her workshop. She just finished her rolled...

Tourism and the EU June 2011 More than 30 years ago my wife and I had a wonderfull time camping on this relatively unknown Greek island....

Ukrainian hospitality Drohobich, Ukraine, August 2016 The Ukrainian language is not easy to master but I have decided to learn its basics, at least. In western...

A new Euro generation tries to build a life I am on the train from Brasov to Sibiu, in the middle of Rumania. The weather...

Plains near Poltava Ukraine, October 2016 Sunflower fields are abundant around Poltava, Ukraine. It is an important local industry and has been for almost a century....

The only Roma town in Macedonia Macedonia, Skopje, August 2012 It is not easy to find the right bus to my destination Šutka. The signs are...

Crossing the EU border Ukriane, Slovakia, Uzhgorod, August 2014 There is airco when the driver feels like it. It is nearly 40 degrees in the bus...

European youth January 2016 Przemyśl is a sleepy bordertown in the east of Poland, just a few kilometers away from the Ukrainian border. The river that splits...

A contrast between the three houses. Two immaculaly kept in the centre of Gävle and in the middle of Dalarna, the other on the...

Roma and Sinti in Rumania November 2016 Andrea asks me habla Espagnol? She gestures: she is hungry. The three gypsy girls circle around me like a...