Ukraine

by Rashmee

Posted on April 2, 2022


Three days after Britain launched its Home for Ukraine website on March 14, more than …

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What is a country if it’s not a nation?

by Rashmee

Posted on March 21, 2022


Novelist Marina Lewycka’s musings about the ancient nature or not of Ukraine made me think …

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Is Ukraine really an ancient state and what is a country if it’s not a nation?

by Rashmee

Posted on March 20, 2022


Vladimir Putin has somewhat contemptuously said that Ukraine is not an ancient state; it’s not …

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Marina Lewycka on the ambiguities of being Ukrainian

by Rashmee

Posted on March 19, 2022


On her website, British Ukrainian novelist Marina Lewycka offers some observations on eastern Ukraine, …

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A novel on tractors in Ukrainian is about anything but

by Rashmee

Posted on March 18, 2022


Marina Lewycka’s 2005 debut novel, ‘A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian’, was generally well-received …

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What links the UK’s DIY-asylum system and that novel about ‘tractors in Ukrainian’?

by Rashmee

Posted on March 17, 2022


More than 100,000 potential refugee sponsors have signed up for the voluntary job since Britain …

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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK