Author: Kollen Post / RFE/RL

LUCH, Ukraine – It was when a blaze of flying glass and shrapnel fanned across their apartment that Mykola and Natalya Andryushchenko decided it was time to go. At the time of the explosion outside their window, his son and two grandsons were visiting the pensioners at their apartment in a southern Ukrainian village. Natalya,...

LVIV, Ukraine – Olena Kozlova’s father was in the Soviet army, so the family moved around constantly before eventually settling in Lviv, in the far west of what would become, when she was 17 years old, an independent Ukraine. There she stayed, ultimately founding a software company as the city’s information technology (IT) industry began...