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Noémie Naudin

Noémie Naudin is a French journalist and photographer based in Warsaw. She previously worked for Reuters and contributes to outlets including Libération, Slate.fr and The Brussels Times. She covers Polish society, culture and Central and Eastern Europe. Noémie holds a Master's degree in Bilingual Journalism from Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.

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How Ukrainian and Belarusian entrepreneurs have set new standards in Warsaw’s café scene

by Noémie Naudin
WARSAW, Poland — Walk into Milk Bar in central Warsaw, and you'll find the new face of the city's café scene. The lines are clean, the lighting deliberate, and the cakes arranged with gallery-like precision. Without an ear for accents, you might never guess that for its owners and staff, it is a second home, rebuilt after war in Ukraine and political repression in Belarus that forced many of them to start over in Poland. Anna Kozachenko launched the original Milk Bar in Kyiv twelve years ago.