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30Oct

30.10.2025 / Home


Irpin, memorial at the destroyed Romaniv bridge, May 2025. Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated under russian fire from russian-occupied areas of the Kyiv region via this “Road of Life” in March 2022.
OCT 30, 2025

I am writing from Poland, where I’ve spent the past week visiting friends. Yes, this was a planned trip to escape the cold, darkness, and russian airstrikes that have come to characterize autumn in Kyiv. Only these are not normal conditions for living.

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07Jul

12.07.2025 / Independence or Indecision

12.07.2025 / Independence or indecision by Larissa Babij 


This 4th of July Claire Berlinski produced a piece of conceptual art by publishing the full text of the Declaration of Independence (with no additional comment). Eloquent, courageous, the declaration speaks for itself: a performative gesture that transformed a line of thought, stretching back to Aristotle, into action so potent that the nation it birthed lived a long, prosperous life of nearly 250 years.Read more →

27May

26.05.2025 / This Is War

26.05.2025 / This Is War by Larissa Babij


Thank you, friends, for writing to check in these past few days. It’s good to be reminded that you care. You’ve also helped me see that I should be the one to speak first if I don’t want Russia to speak for me. Read more →

14Mar

08.03.2025 / Consistency

08.03.2025 / Consistency by Larissa Babij

This moment is no less alarming than February and March 2022. In fact it is much more terrifying. For you don’t hear explosions outside your window. I do, of course, even as I write this, but they don’t elicit the same bodily response, they’ve become familiar.

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23Feb

23.02.2025 / As Long As It Takes

23.02.2025 / As long as it takes by Larissa Babij.


I came back to Kyiv on February 12. After a month abroad, the first thing I noticed was how dirty the air was. Overnight russia had attacked Ukraine with 123 Shahed drones + 6 ballistic missiles. Missile fragments had fallen in several Kyiv neighborhoods and killed a person. Read more →

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