This is such brilliant news for us and for GloPost @sta-modlangs.bsky.social! Looking forward to learning much from Abi and programming loads of Moldova content over the next few years! Congratulations, Abi!!! 🎉🎉

@victoriadonovan.bsky.social reflects on the deep-rooted culture of local initiative in Ukraine — and how communities step in where the state cannot.

Watch the full conversation, which marked the launch of our Ukraine Community Resilience Fund:

🔗 bearr.org/2025/04/10/b...

You can now order my book via Ibidem. These are stories with a bit of humor and history, and I hope they are saying more about Kharkiv than my ever-modest self 😅. Big thanks to @maksymeristavi.com and @victoriadonovan.bsky.social - my first readers & inspirations. www.ibidem.eu/en/Topics/So...

verschiedene Sanktionsarten kritisch bewertet wird. Abschließend eröffnet die Untersuchung neue Perspektiven für die gerichtliche Praxis und die Forschung.

@victoriadonovan.bsky.social, Professorin für ukrainische und osteuropäische Studien an der schottischen University 28/31

Thank you @thebearrtrust.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about Life in Spite of Everything at the launch of the Ukraine Community Resilience Fund last night! BEARR is an inspiring organisation that's raised £600K+ since 2022 and is supporting all the right organisations. Amazing work!

Beautiful review of Life in Spite of Everything by Andrey Kurkov in yesterday's Observer, also featuring one of my favourite photographs in the book from Sloviansk ❤️: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

❗️1 week until the launch of Ukraine Community Resilience Fund with @victoriadonovan.bsky.social, Prof of Ukrainian and East European Studies at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social and author of Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East.

📅8 May, 18:00 BST

Register bearr.org/2025/04/10/b...

This is tonight! Hear @victoriadonovan.bsky.social talk about her new book about Ukraine, LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING, published this month @dauntbookspub.bsky.social. 📚😍

I spoke to @FrancisDearnley @telegraphnews.bsky.social podcast "Ukraine: The Latest" about the myth of 'Donbas' and how Russia has instrumentalised and weaponised that myth across time. Listen again on the pod webpage here: shows.acast.com/ukraine-the-...

@dauntbookspub.bsky.social

To mark the launch of Ukraine Community Resilience Fund, we're hosting a special online event "Life in Spite of Everything: In conversation with Victoria Donovan"

📅8 May, 18:00 BST

Free & open to all, donations to Ukraine Community Resilience Fund are welcome.

Register: bearr.org/2025/04/10/b...

Thank you so much, @jenstout.bsky.social!

Don't miss this wonderful event. Tue 29 April 7:30pm Prof Victoria Donovan will give a book talk at Topping & Company Booksellers of St Andrews on her book 'Life in Spite of Everything'. You can book tickets with a copy of the book included in the price here: toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...

Revelatory, evocative and deeply humane, LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING is a celebration of Ukraine's past and present, and its people’s tenacity, creativity and independence.
Join Victoria Donovan in this book tour coming to a city near you!
dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/victoria-don...

The Ukraine Shelf Episode 3: Eastern Ukraine with Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan
🎧 Listen here: youtu.be/NjoJ40hapDc

Produced in collaboration with @ukrinstitute.bsky.social, @uclssees.bsky.social, @uclei.bsky.social and @britishacademy.bsky.social.

A rich cross-disciplinary discussion of a signature experience of our time: uncertainty. Anne McElvoy shepherds (& occasionally soothes) the experts. BBCFreeThinking with Margaret Heffernan, Liam Halligan @chrislintott.bsky.social @fromtga.bsky.social Victoria Donovan
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

🚨'A book that shines a spotlight on a part of the world most of us know only from scenes of death and destruction on the television news.' Peter Conradi @thetimes.com on LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING: TALES FROM THE UKRAINIAN EAST by Victoria Donovan.
www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Looking for something to listen to this long weekend? Tune into the latest Ukraine Shelf episode—this time on Eastern Ukraine, a region still too often misunderstood. @uilleamblacker.bsky.social and I speak with brilliant authors Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan. Link below.

📢Event alert! Edinburgh friends, Victoria Donovan, author of LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING: TALES FROM THE UKRAINIAN EAST will be in discussing her book with Vlada Vazheyevskyy.

📍Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh
📅Thu 24 April, 7:00pm

FEW TICKETS REMAINING
www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/tales...

In April and May I'll be touring my forthcoming book Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East. If you are in the vicinity of any of the venues that I'm talking at, please do come and say hello 👋. And watch this space for dates in Ukraine and Wales in June and July! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿