in Lviv, Stories, Ukraine, Urbangreen
Free & Green Gym of Lviv
When we think about getting fit and improving our health, by default most of us start to think about signing up for a gym membership. But the problem with gyms is that too often they require a lot of willpower to go through the initial stage of finding the right one, the sign-up process, and …
in Entrepreneurship, Guides, Lviv, Ukraine, Urbangreen
Revolutionary Spaces of Lviv
Ukraine is perhaps the least expressed country of Eastern Europe to the rest of the world. A former soviet republic, for years there was a grey cloud hanging above it after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. But things started to change recently. The millennial generation, connected and daring, decided that it had enough of …
The Travellers of War. Part 1. An Interview with a Crimean Refugee, Pavlo Belousov
Pavlo is a social activist and an entrepreneur from Crimea, who moved with his girlfriend to Lviv last spring to escape Russian aggression. We met at one of Lviv’s coffee places on an August evening, after the day’s heat had gone. Despite coming from the warm south, Pavlo is sensitive to hot temperatures. We talked …