Ukraine in a nutshell: Recent Episodes

Michelle Bondar

The essential truths about Ukrainian history and culture with a little black humour.

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It is known that most Ukrainians can speak rssian, while few rssians can speak Ukrainian. You'll find out how it happened and why we call our bilingualism unfortunate in this episode!

Learn more about the forbidden 1928 orthography here (a video in Ukrainian with English subtitles) and here

Wikipedia pages on linguicide of Ukrainian and the Executed/Shot Renaissance (google translate the Ukrainian articles because they provide more information than the English versions) 

Also, this is how r*ssians tried to ban the Lithuanian alphabet (and failed)

Donate to Ukraine and save a life🥺

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Are "Ukraine" and "modern technologies" the opposites in your worldview? Let me change your mind in 13 minutes and 10 seconds!! In this episode, you'll find out about many aspects of Ukrainian modernity and technical development, sprinkled with (un)funny jokes.

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Follow me on Instagram to get a glimpse of the creation process and some random thoughts!

Subscribe to my YouTube to listen to the same podcast but with subtitles!!  

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Ukraine being iconic for 31 years. That's very brief, but if you want to know more, listen to this episode, where I summarise one year of Ukrainian history in approximately one minute. Part 2 is about the 2007-present period, while the previous part 1 is dedicated to the 1991-2006 period.

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Ukraine being iconic for 31 years. That's very brief, but if you want to know more, listen to this episode, where I summarise one year of Ukrainian history in approximately one minute. Part 1 is dedicated to the 1991-2006 period, the upcoming part 2 is about the 2007-present period.

Donate to Ukraine: savelife.in.ua

My Instagram, YouTube

Send a voice message with your feedback/impressions/additions/anything nice on Anchor to be featured in the next episode (I have no idea how this works so we'll find out together :)

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Is it Kyiv or Kiev, do you have to use the article in front of Ukraine and why it's better to say "West of Ukraine" rather than "Western Ukraine" - all these questions answered and explained in one episode!

Instagram: http://instagram.com/michelle_ineffable

Donate to Ukraine and save a life: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate-en/#donate-army-card-monthly

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I invite you on this journey through Ukrainian culture and history because I think the world should know about us. You should understand what we’re fighting for right now, why we don’t give up and never will. Stay tuned if you want to widen your outlook and support Ukraine! I can’t wait to share with you guys all the interesting things and fun facts I found on this podcast so that you understand the vibe of Ukraine and fall in love with it!

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The podcast "Ukraine in a nutshell" - the essential truths about Ukrainian history and culture with a little black humour.