Marta Dyczok

Marta Dyczok is an Associate Professor at the Departments of History and Political Science at the University of Western Ontario

Fighting the developers in Kyiv

The fate of historic buildings is a global hot topic, but this month activists occupying an old trading complex in Ukraine’s capital to try to stop its redevelopment had to deal with a real fire destroying their ‘Friendly Republic’. Marta Dyczok sees here a metaphor for the country as a whole.

By Marta Dyczok

/ 20 Feb 2013