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Building Civic Resilience: Challenges and Solutions in Central Europe
12 December 2024
21 September 2023
Russia is desperate and only knows one way of demanding respect – fear. The West must stand against this ideology now or face a future with a divided Europe once again.
Moshchun, a small village on the outskirts of Kyiv, has its own outskirts: the dachas. An area of several square kilometres where Ukrainians have been building their country houses, usually with their own hands, spending several years or even decades constructing a sanctuary to rest from the busy city life.
Today, this dacha district no longer exists. Imagine several hundred small, private 2- or 3-floor buildings where no home has survived. Some of them have been severely damaged, some completely destroyed and burnt down. Some only have furnaces left standing amongst the rubble. A furnace and a chimney that is all that is left, instead of a house.