Porohy #4 (2025)

This issue opens with a column by journalist Vitaliy Portnikov — reflecting on the painful parallels between Ukraine and Bosnia and recalling the tragedy in Srebrenica, the 30th anniversary of which the world is commemorating.

In Community Chronicles and the Digest, we have traditionally compiled important news and events for you — everything happening around you in the Czech Republic and beyond.

We have prepared an analytical article on how the Czech Republic is becoming a field of hybrid warfare, where dictatorships confront democracy. The new annual report of the Czech Security and Information Service (BIS) paints a clear picture of external influences that threaten the country’s internal stability — from digital platforms and business investments to manipulation via religion and artificial intelligence.

The Conversation of this issue features Veronika Poznyak. Actress, singer, and educator — she shares her path, her personal formation, inner strength, deep attachment to her roots, and the power of music.

Also in this issue — a feature on the phenomenon of Boychukism: how Mykhailo Boychuk and his school brought focus to Ukrainian visual art, making it one of the most recognizable avant-garde movements of the 20th century.