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Victoria Donovan @victoriadonovan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

This is such brilliant news for us and for GloPost @sta-modlangs.bsky.social! Looking forward to learning much from Abi and programming loads of Moldova content over the next few years! Congratulations, Abi!!! 🎉🎉

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The BEARR Trust @thebearrtrust.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

@victoriadonovan.bsky.social reflects on the deep-rooted culture of local initiative in Ukraine — and how communities step in where the state cannot. Watch the full conversation, which marked the launch of our Ukraine Community Resilience Fund: 🔗 bearr.org/2025/04/10/b...

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Viktoriia Grivina @brams884.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

You can now order my book via Ibidem. These are stories with a bit of humor and history, and I hope they are saying more about Kharkiv than my ever-modest self 😅. Big thanks to @maksymeristavi.com and @victoriadonovan.bsky.social - my first readers & inspirations. www.ibidem.eu/en/Topics/So...

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Kharkiv—A War City

Kharkiv—A War City - This unique collection of essays offers a glimpse into life in and around Kharkiv during the first two years of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A Kharkiv native, Vikoriia

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Thomas Leurs @thomasleurs.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

verschiedene Sanktionsarten kritisch bewertet wird. Abschließend eröffnet die Untersuchung neue Perspektiven für die gerichtliche Praxis und die Forschung. @victoriadonovan.bsky.social, Professorin für ukrainische und osteuropäische Studien an der schottischen University 28/31

"Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East" von Victoria Donovan

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Victoria Donovan @victoriadonovan.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Thank you @thebearrtrust.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about Life in Spite of Everything at the launch of the Ukraine Community Resilience Fund last night! BEARR is an inspiring organisation that's raised £600K+ since 2022 and is supporting all the right organisations. Amazing work!

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Victoria Donovan @victoriadonovan.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Beautiful review of Life in Spite of Everything by Andrey Kurkov in yesterday's Observer, also featuring one of my favourite photographs in the book from Sloviansk ❤️: observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Review: A deep study of Ukraine's Donbas beyond war and propaganda

The celebrated Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov reflects on a bittersweet history of Donbas, a battleground in the Russian invasion, but a region full of stories

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The BEARR Trust @thebearrtrust.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

❗️1 week until the launch of Ukraine Community Resilience Fund with @victoriadonovan.bsky.social, Prof of Ukrainian and East European Studies at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social and author of Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East. 📅8 May, 18:00 BST Register bearr.org/2025/04/10/b...

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BEARR Event: Life in Spite of Everything: In conversation with Victoria Donovan - The BEARR Trust

Join The BEARR Trust for a special event on Thursday 8 May at 18:00 BST marking the launch of our Ukraine Community Resilience Fund. We’ll be joined by Professor Victoria Donovan, Professor of Ukraini...

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This is tonight! Hear @victoriadonovan.bsky.social talk about her new book about Ukraine, LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING, published this month @dauntbookspub.bsky.social. 📚😍

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Victoria Donovan @victoriadonovan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I spoke to @FrancisDearnley @telegraphnews.bsky.social podcast "Ukraine: The Latest" about the myth of 'Donbas' and how Russia has instrumentalised and weaponised that myth across time. Listen again on the pod webpage here: shows.acast.com/ukraine-the-... @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

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Putin declares ‘shock’ ceasefire in 'critical week' in Ukraine-Russia peace talks | Ukraine: The Latest

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The BEARR Trust @thebearrtrust.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

To mark the launch of Ukraine Community Resilience Fund, we're hosting a special online event "Life in Spite of Everything: In conversation with Victoria Donovan" 📅8 May, 18:00 BST Free & open to all, donations to Ukraine Community Resilience Fund are welcome. Register: bearr.org/2025/04/10/b...

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Modern Languages at St Andrews @sta-modlangs.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Don't miss this wonderful event. Tue 29 April 7:30pm Prof Victoria Donovan will give a book talk at Topping & Company Booksellers of St Andrews on her book 'Life in Spite of Everything'. You can book tickets with a copy of the book included in the price here: toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Revelatory, evocative and deeply humane, LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING is a celebration of Ukraine's past and present, and its people’s tenacity, creativity and independence. Join Victoria Donovan in this book tour coming to a city near you! dauntbookspublishing.co.uk/victoria-don...

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Victoria Donovan’s Book Tour | Daunt Books Publishing

Join Victoria Donovan discussing her book Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East in the following dates. These events offer a powerful and timely reflection on Ukraine’s past and p...

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Olesya Khromeychuk @okhromeychuk.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The Ukraine Shelf Episode 3: Eastern Ukraine with Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan 🎧 Listen here: youtu.be/NjoJ40hapDc Produced in collaboration with @ukrinstitute.bsky.social, @uclssees.bsky.social, @uclei.bsky.social and @britishacademy.bsky.social.

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Ukraine Shelf Episode 3: Eastern Ukraine with Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan

YouTube video by Ukrainian Institute London

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Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A rich cross-disciplinary discussion of a signature experience of our time: uncertainty. Anne McElvoy shepherds (& occasionally soothes) the experts. BBCFreeThinking with Margaret Heffernan, Liam Halligan @chrislintott.bsky.social @fromtga.bsky.social Victoria Donovan www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Uncertainty

Chris Lintott, Margaret Heffernan, Liam Halligan, Tim Garton Ash, Victoria Donovan

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Jimena Gorráez @jimenagorraez.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

🚨'A book that shines a spotlight on a part of the world most of us know only from scenes of death and destruction on the television news.' Peter Conradi @thetimes.com on LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING: TALES FROM THE UKRAINIAN EAST by Victoria Donovan. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

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Donbas: land of coal, steel and blood

This mining region in Ukraine was once the beating industrial heart of the Soviet Union. Now it has been devastated by Putin’s war, as Victoria Donovan’s Life in Spite of Everything details

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Olesya Khromeychuk @okhromeychuk.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Looking for something to listen to this long weekend? Tune into the latest Ukraine Shelf episode—this time on Eastern Ukraine, a region still too often misunderstood. @uilleamblacker.bsky.social and I speak with brilliant authors Olena Stiazhkina and Victoria Donovan. Link below.

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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

📢Event alert! Edinburgh friends, Victoria Donovan, author of LIFE IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING: TALES FROM THE UKRAINIAN EAST will be in discussing her book with Vlada Vazheyevskyy. 📍Lighthouse Bookshop, Edinburgh 📅Thu 24 April, 7:00pm FEW TICKETS REMAINING www.lighthousebookshop.com/events/tales...

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Lighthouse | Life in Spite of Everything : Tales from the Ukrainian East with Victoria Donovan

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Victoria Donovan @victoriadonovan.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

In April and May I'll be touring my forthcoming book Life in Spite of Everything: Tales from the Ukrainian East. If you are in the vicinity of any of the venues that I'm talking at, please do come and say hello 👋. And watch this space for dates in Ukraine and Wales in June and July! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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