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Interview for Prague International in English: Ukrainian artists' support programme after the 24Feb2022 - Czech Center Kyiv
20/04/2022 11:15
As you said, you are now in charge of Czech Centre Kyiv in exile. What is the focus of your work at the moment?
“When I was evacuated I thought we could still go on with our cultural programming back in Ukraine, but of course with the war we had to change everything.
“So, together with my...
Radka Rubilina's poetry translated into Russian by Adela Ciljakova and published in an anthology "Pearls of Czech poetry"
12/04/2017 13:10
В скором времени в Ташкенте состоится презентация нового поэтического сборника "Жемчужины чешской поэзии"
Издательство Национальной библиотеки Узбекистана выпустило этот хорошо иллюстрированный сборник только что в честь 24-ой годовщины установления дипломатических отношений...
Поэтика документальности Шаламов – Пушкин - Терц. Радка Рубилина (Бзонкова)
28/02/2017 12:36
Насколько можно (или нужно) говорить в случае лагерной литературы о документальности? Многие лагерные авторы воспринимают себя как «свидетелей эпохи»: пишут мемуары, рассказы, романы. Несмотря на их заверения, до сих пор продолжаются дискуссии о том, насколько они в своих произведениях...
Radka Rubilina /Bzonkova/: The Maidan’s Occasional Newsletter, March 22, 2014
03/03/2015 15:42
“You are being a part of history”, John, the initiator of the entire project, started his speech. “Whose history?” Immediately I wanted to contradict certain pathos in his voice. But, I bit my tongue. After all, this is a very first day of our mission in Ukrainian…
Before the local security...
Premiere in Forest (Free theater), Belarus 2008, Radka Rubilina
04/08/2014 09:12
A friend have promised us a premiere of a new play by a ‘prohibited’ (underground) theatre performed in some family house somewhere on the periphery. By the time we took a bus and got to the assigned meeting spot, we were already late for more than a half an hour. The friend was gone. Though he...
The Olympics in Sochi 2014, toilets and a different point of view. Radka Rubilina, 2014
26/05/2014 15:19
For me a symbol of the Olympics in Sochi, thanks to the social media, has become the shared restrooms and painted green grass. A picture showing several toilets in one room without anything that would be even slightly suggestive of a divider have been published by Indian media about a week before...
What Is Trust Worth? Radka Rubilina, Kyrgyzstan 2013
15/05/2014 13:38
From a certain point of view people can be divided into two groups:
Those who usually do not trust people and with any given opportunity they will try to prove the legitimacy of their point. And those who usually do trust people and with any given opportunity they will try to prove the legitimacy...
How I almost got into a fight, Moldova, 2007 - Radka Rubilina
01/05/2014 13:32
In Moldova, in Kishinev/Chisinau, I was waiting for a microbus (also known as marshrutka) that would take me to the opposite side of the city. In Kishinev, public transportation does not exist; it came to the end together with the Soviet Union. Like anywhere in the East, the heavily producing...
Radka Rubilina: New Year’s Troubles, Armenia 2013/14
30/03/2014 21:26
Oh, this inattentiveness of mine!
With my head always somewhere in high transcendent spheres, no wonder things were happening the way they were. I get groceries, go back home, take a look at my bag, and…all apples I fully and dully paid for are missing. I am thinking, “Are the local salesmen...
Radka Rubilina: The State Border, Ukraine 2007
19/03/2014 16:42
Monitoring of an election process can be very thrilling, though not really in case you have been assigned to an uninhabited land strip alongside the Ukraine – Russia state border; not much of the election thrill you can expect here. Election observers tend to serve in pairs and this time I was...
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