Kiev is more interesting. Most jobs. Most activity. Very big sprawling city mixing old austro-hungarian-polish with soviet (ugh) concrete apartments. Everyone speaks both russian and ukrainian. More often russian. Most shops have people who speak english.
Lviv is cheaper and has more ‘touristy’ feel. More tech. More Polish-Austrian. “Cultural” center of the country. Family life is good here. Not sure it’s as good for ‘singles’ so to speak. (I prefer lviv – it’s very relaxed. Calm. Old european city. very old fashioned people. And all I need to be happy are tourist areas to write and people watch. I haven’t found that elsewhere in ukraine.
Kharkiv. Very cheap. Some tech. Russified.
Dnipropetrovsk … Some Tech. Russified. ( well, 10’s grow on trees. Seriously. It’s worth it just for the scenery.)
Odessa. Good shopping. Black Sea Climate (Too hot in summer for me). Lots of black market activity (cars etc). Good for music, fashion, partying. Russified.
I found apartments overpriced but everything else dirt cheap. And I just loved the entire experience of a civil rather than politcal public discourse.
Theme: Civilization
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Yeah. I’ve gone native. I have passion for Ukraine, her culture, and her people
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Yeah. I’ve gone native. I have passion for Ukraine, her culture, and her people
Yeah. I’ve gone native. I have passion for Ukraine, her culture, and her people.
Source date (UTC): 2017-09-05 08:45:00 UTC
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Yeah. I’ve gone native. I have passion for Ukraine, her culture, and her people
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What the West, and the Soviet Union’s victims, owe to Robert Conquest
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Source date (UTC): 2017-09-05 08:31:00 UTC
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What the West, and the Soviet Union’s victims, owe to Robert Conquest
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Увага українських друзів. Російський професор показує фотографії України в Худож
Увага українських друзів. Російський професор показує фотографії України в Художній галереї Університету
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“Photographing the New East”
Sasha Rudensky, Assistant Professor of Art
Wesleyan University, Middletown Connecticut, USA
Opening reception and gallery talk
Wednesday, September 13, 2017, 5:00 pm
Gallery talk by Sasha Rudensky, Assistant Professor of Art, 5:30 pm
At the Border of Truth: Photographing the New East
Sasha Rudensky, Assistant Professor of Art
Tuesday, September 26, 2017, 5:00 pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, Center for the Arts
Sasha Rudensky will give an artist’s lecture focusing on her series of photographic and video projects completed in Russia, Ukraine, and the greater New East region between 2004 and 2017. These projects examine the slow dissolution of Soviet consciousness, the ideological vacuum left in its wake, and the reconstitution of new post-Soviet identities.
Panel Discussion
Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 5:00 pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall, Center for the Arts
Speakers include author Sophie Pinkham; Sasha Rudensky; Peter Rutland, Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought, and Professor of Government, the College of Social Studies (CSS), and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REES); Victoria Smolkin, Assistant Professor of History, CSS, and REES; and moderated by Clare Rogan, Curator, Davison Art Center, and Susanne Fusso, Chair and Professor of REES.
Panel discussion sponsored by the REES Program and the Davison Art Center.
Source date (UTC): 2017-09-01 12:04:00 UTC
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THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE (a) War is certain simply because it is always certain. (b)
THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE
(a) War is certain simply because it is always certain. (b) Plague is certain because it is always certain. (d) economic Malthusian limits are certain because they are always certain – it’s just demographics; (c) Resource exhaustion is certain because Malthusian limits to the earth are always certain.
The question is only whether we make civil war certain so that we CHOOSE the war rather than are victims of war, plague, economic exhaustion, and resource exhaustion.
The hypothesis that we have defeated Methuselah is very hard to stand behind. The question is whether we choose to control and survive those certainties or choose to be the victim of them.
There exist no theories without limits other than the certainty that all theories (general rules of limited precision) have limits. Dark ages are a regular occurrence. Civilizational collapse is a regular occurrence. The reasons are always the same: technological innovation followed by mass migration, causing information, incentive, and organizational collapse within the civil orders.
We always choose our destiny. We choose to pay for the one we want, or we choose not to and get what we deserve.
Source date (UTC): 2017-09-01 10:18:00 UTC
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I had a very ‘evil’ thought. You know, during our rise to the hunter gatherer ph
I had a very ‘evil’ thought. You know, during our rise to the hunter gatherer phase, women were herded as domesticated animals. During our hunter gatherer phase, they seem to have been members of families. During our agrarian phase they were treated as property, slaves, or labor as often as not. During our industrial phase – given the advent of birth control – they have sought equality with men, but the majority end up as single mothers and men as serial sex partners providing extra income. So is what we are seeing now, men simply – as are women – following incentives. Because the obvious incentive is for the majority of men to vote themselves sustenance from the state and abandon all contribution and responsibility for family. And in effect, return to the more traditional tribal role of leaving women to do the vast majority of the work, and spending the rest of the time ‘hunting and fishing’ so to speak.
Source date (UTC): 2017-08-31 17:12:00 UTC