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I believe children at geography lessons in school should learn not map of the world, but history of colonialism.  Image: Nautical Atlas of the World, Folio 3 Recto, Northern Indian Ocean with Arabia and India and Folio 3 Verso, Southern Indian Ocean with Insulindia on the Left, and Madagascar on the Right .  The map presented here is […]

The round-shaped administrative building at Solomyanska, 13 [Солом’янська] dominants in the view from one of the rooms of my parent’s apartment. It is hard to trace the story of building; probably no research for now has been done, but currently the building hosts the State Service for Special Connection and Protection of the Information of […]

Kyiv, 2016

During the Middle Ages, the Atlantic was known as the „vast ocean”, “dark sea” or “western sea”. These different titles summarize its significance to the Western world until the beginning of the maritime explorations: a sea so vast and so dangerous that it was regarded as the border of the known world. In 1434 the […]

Being Ukrainian in Poland after two years in Germany is rather weird experience. It took me several months to be able to see beyond the image of Poland, created by Western media and German cultural institutions. Finally I realized that Germany is Protestant Europe and Poland is Catholic Europe and here could be the roots […]