Issues gathers thematic collections of essays, reflections, interviews, and reports exploring contemporary challenges to democracy, human rights, political culture, and public life from diverse international perspectives.
Issues gathers thematic collections of essays, reflections, interviews, and reports exploring contemporary challenges to democracy, human rights, political culture, and public life from diverse international perspectives.
Paweł Pieniążek from Kyiv – 03/10/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. The authorities, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are constantly appealing to NATO countries to introduce a no-fly zone over Ukraine. The Kyiv-Classic Symphony Orchestra started its concert at Independence Square in Kyiv with the national anthem of Ukraine. There were up to seventy performers in the orchestra until the outbreak of war but about a third …
Paweł Pieniążek form Kyiv – 02/26/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. Mikola queued up with others in front of the store. Behind them was a twenty-story apartment building. Something made an awful boom. The shockwave threw all five into the supermarket. A rocket had hit the apartment building. Mykola, 69, was finishing the night shift. He is a security guard in one of the buildings. He was …
Paweł Pieniążek – 2/27/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. DISPATCH FROM KYIV | When I got here, a friend left me the key to his apartment. I didn’t meet my friend again after returning from the trip to Kharkiv. I hope now that this key will still be of use to him one day. When I left Kabul last January, I forgot to leave my friend the …
Paweł Pieniążek – 2/28/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. Ukrainians are fighting in the face of the Russian invasion, blocking tanks, supporting soldiers, organizing and keeping order to thwart the Kremlin’s plans. Driving down Prospect Peremohy, Victory Avenue, black smoke could be seen rising on the horizon. It was the third day of the full-scale Russian invasion. The night was difficult. Fierce clashes took place in and around …
Paweł Pieniążek – 2/28/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. After a day and a half of lockdown, the city’s inhabitants replenish their supplies. No one knows if stores will open tomorrow | CORRESPONDENCE FROM KYIV Due to an extended curfew, the people of Kyiv had to spend one and a half days at home. The three-million-strong city of Kyiv seemed completely deserted. During the curfew the territorial …
Paweł Pieniążek from Kyiv – 03/01/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. Overhead we heard the reverberation of a guided rocket engine and whistling. A minute later it hit a TV tower a few kilometers away from my location. | CORRESPONDENCE BY PAWEŁ PIENIĄŻK FROM KYIV The driver parks the car. I get out with two journalists to talk to volunteers in the ranks of the territorial defense. …
Paweł Pieniąźek from Kyiv – 02/23/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. The capital’s military store has been under siege since the threat of another Russian attack began to loom over Ukraine. It’s hard to squeeze between the hangers and shelves of the store in the late afternoon. Customers and curious people browse winter jackets (one was recently bought by the Minister of Defense, and earlier also by the …
Paweł Pieniążek from Kharkiv – 02/24/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. At five in the morning, I was awakened by bangs. The sound was unmistakable. I knew it had begun. Tetiana, a middle-aged woman, engages me in conversation on the metro. This is the second hour that she has spent trying to get to Gagarin prospect in southern Kharkiv. “There is no space in the marshrutkas [minibus taxis]. …
Paweł Pieniążek – 02/24/2022. Originally published in Tygodnik Powszechny. Kharkiv | The building in Piatykhatky is one of the first to suffer from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Fortunately, the rocket did not explode, otherwise we would not be standing here,” says 40-year-old Yuri. Moments after 5 in the morning, there was a barrage. Mykhailo, 25, instinctively jumped up from the futon. He wanted to run out into …
Paweł Pieniąźek from Kyiv – 02/19/2022 Oleh uses an app where he records how he spends his time. It asks him if he spent the day as if it were his last. Recently, Oleh has been asking himself this question too. Every day. He strives not to regret any of them. Early Tuesday afternoon, Reuters started broadcasting live from Kyiv; the camera was placed overlooking Independence Square. The …
