I was recently in Kharkiv for a conference on how to build dialogue in times of conflict. It seemed the right sort of place to have this conversation.
During the revolution and subsequent war in Ukraine, Kharkiv — the country’s second largest city just 40 kilometers from the Russian border — saw violent clashes between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian groups. Today Kharkiv is a bellweather for whether Ukraine can remain united and reform after the revolution, or whether Putin can use it to stir trouble and destroy the country from inside.
At the conference, I bumped into Irina Red, a local psychologist. I …read more
Source: European Voice
