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Reporting from the Front Line: Ukraine’s other war against corruption
In Kharkiv Oblast, a village located 30 kilometers from the hottest frontline in Europen our journalist Paolo Zurlo met Vitalyi Shabunin, Ukraine’s most vocal anti-corruption activist. Together with Giovanni Kessler (former EU Anti-Corruption Office Director) and activists from the European Nonviolent Action Movement, Paolo asked Shabunin about another, less visible war that has been afflicting the country: the resistance of the Ukrainian people against political corruption. Author: Paolo Zurlo Photo credit: Vitalyi Shabunin, co-founder of AntAC, Ukraine’s leading corruption NGO. @Paolo Zurlo Shabunin is the co-founder of AntAC, Ukraine’s leading anti-corruption NGO. He founded the organisation in 2012, he explained, when he…
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Pirandello’s As You Desire Me: Capturing the beautiful and dangerous ideal on stage
The lights come up on a woman, assailed. Blindfolded, she vaults across the stage, dancing in and out of the embrace of a group of lusting men. Are these assailants her lovers or attackers? The audience hesitates: is it witnessing a debauched party, or is a more sinister violation being committed against this blinded figure ? As You Desire Me’s opening scene premises a play in which different perceptions of reality are pushed onto the stage, competing for legitimacy and power. The ‘unknown woman,’ ultimately a nameless entity, is a figure in which these competing realities clash. Chloé Réjon plays her with…
