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The Soviets tried to silence Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus. A new exhibition honors his legacy
While the Soviet authorities promoted their vision of ideological "universalism" — a homogenized identity that suppressed national cultures — dissenting voices were silenced through arrests, intimidation, and even murder. Yet amid this repression, courageous figures refused to surrender their cultural identity. Among them was the poet Vasyl Stus (1938-1985), one of the era's greatest Ukrainian dissidents. The new exhibition "As Long As We're Here, Everything Will Be Fine" at Kyiv's Mystetskyi
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Rapidly expanding drone maker Fire Point is under scrutiny over its opaque funding, ownership, and links to figures named in a major anti-corruption and money-laundering investigation.
