the activity of a judge is very often intertwined with personal life, and it is sometimes impossible to determine where this border is. from 2011 to 2015 , ala oliynyk lived with her nephew in a one-room apartment in kyiv. at that time , the boy was studying at the kyiv national university of culture and arts, where, by a sudden coincidence, oliynyk was teaching. i did not take any exams from him, i did not communicate with anyone, and it would have been even for me. right, because i know that i am a judge and my reputation is quite important to me, on the contrary, these are strict requirements for training, regarding his behavior, indeed, in the third year i taught civil procedure to him, because i was the only teacher. after graduating from the university, the nephew was looking for a job, but by coincidence he was able to get a job at the higher specialized court where his aunt worked. then he went to work. to

the kyiv court of appeals, where, as you might have guessed, allanyk was a judge. a competition was announced, and i cannot forbid him if there is a competition and he wants to work, exercise his constitutional right, so he really passed the competition, and when there was a question of liquidation of the higher specialized court of ukraine for consideration of civil criminal cases, he was dismissed. the question of work arose again. i used to work before 2007 in the kyiv court of appeal, it was the court of appeal of the city of kyiv, now, as the legal successor said, the kyiv court of appeal, in the 21st year, it seems, he, yes, in the 21st year, he submitted documents, he passed the competition, the competition was fair, i think, because the tests were on computers, judge allainyk in that her nephew studied and worked in institutions, where... she taught and worked herself,

does not see nepotism. i never even thought before that such questions might arise for me in the future, so that it would be a question of my integrity. the panel of judges, with the participation of ala oliynyk, made a number of decisions, which were later recognized by the european court of human rights as violating international obligations and the european convention on human rights, in particular, due to the excessive length of the trial. and the imperfection of national legislation. no judge in ukraine, i think, as well as in another the state does not mind having to take part in the adoption of a decision where the european court found a violation of certain provisions of the convention. just like that, as they say, every judge does not want to have some disciplinary procedure. of course, there are such solutions. experts stated that ale oliynyk's explanation, in particular, related to career growth.

her nephew is not very convincing. nevertheless, it is believed that the judge meets the criterion of high moral qualities. oliynyk has passed to the next stage, and soon the commission will have to assess her professional competence. to another candidate for the post of judge of the constitutional court of ukraine made it to the next stage. serhiy riznyk, vice-rector of the ivan franko national university of lviv, professor of constitutional law. he collects executive proceedings, in particular for violations of traffic rules. both the judge and the candidate for the position of judge of the constitutional court must treat traffic rules with great respect. serhiy riznyk has accumulated as many as 18 fines for traffic violations over the past two years. among them are violations of the speed limit and improper parking. and phone conversations while driving. riznyk himself is proud that he receives an average of two or three fines every year, and only 2022 turned out to be so fruitful. this is the 22nd year and there is a real breakdown in... violations, and in the 23rd year there are three again,

two of which are parking. disruption for violations is 15 fines per year, a significant number. the 22nd year turned out to be difficult for all of us. we are, and i, in particular, had a very long work schedule, a significant workload with foreign students in conditions of attacks. besides, we did some serious long trips like that, well in... yes, to kyiv and a little further, in order to transfer foreign humanitarian aid to our colleagues, we covered 1,500 km at a time, the drivers changed, i do not exclude that it was not me who could have allowed such violations. serhii riznyk does not own real estate, but instead has a lot of savings. $68,00 in cash as of 2020. wife, small children, i understand that you were the main breadwinner of the family. what are the sources of origin of these funds? as

of 20 at the end of the 20th year at that time there was this amount of funds, unfortunately it is already smaller significantly for this period of time, since there were deferred expenses, but frankly i will say that from the point of view of even, as we say, an intelligent outside observer, for 20 years of life, with the modest way of life that our family led, this is a normal amount. serhiy riznyk explains that he was able to save a significant amount during 10 years of marriage, even before the children appeared, his parents helped with products from the village. our family has not purchased any real estate... property anywhere, we have not purchased a single car over $11,000 there, and that was once, and the second cost there at all 6 or 7 thousand dollars after the sale of the first one, for almost the entire period of time, we once went on a trip abroad as children, i

say again, i am not proud of this, because we have to find time for the family, for such expenses, but we we lived frugally, our parents helped us with natural products, we have... the advisory group of experts passed serhiy riznyk to the next stage of selection: we will find out soon whether the lawyer will become a judge of the constitutional court. and for today i have everything, if you want to report on corrupt judges or illegal solutions, write to me on facebook or to this email address. see you in exactly a week. events, events that are happening right now and affect our lives. of course, the news feed reports about them, but it is not enough to know what is happening, one must understand it. antin borkovskii and invited experts

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deal with the mythical trojan horse, which was brought into the city, and then in the middle of the night , an enemy army came out of it. greetings, good evening, my name is myroslava barchuk, this is a self-titled program, a joint project of ukrainian pen and the espresso tv channel. today we will talk about reading, why people began to read more during the war, why we are experiencing such a boom in podcasts of literary conversations. clubs, discussion of books, why new bookstores are opening in cities, we will talk about all this today with my guests, as no wonder, these are two bohdanas, such a beautiful rare name, but they both exist, this is bohdana neborak, journalist and cultural manager,

bohdana, congratulations, and bohdana romantsova, editor, literary critic, congratulations, congratulations, girls, thank you for came to talk about reading, decided to start with you. language from that, your first two or three months of the war, did you read during that time, what did you read, could you have something there on the table next to the bed, or did you pick up a book? i didn't read at all, the first few months of the war was steady for me feeling like fiction has betrayed me and everything i believe in, all those wonderful texts that were supposed to hold civilization together, they don't work anymore, and for the first few months i couldn't at all. to pick up a single artist, and i returned to reading, strangely enough, through writing, when i realized that i could, as a journalist, record stories, tell about them, i gradually returned through nonfiction, through artistic reportage, and only then very soon,

six months later, i returned to the artistic form, as editor, i couldn’t work with the text for the first few months either, it seemed to me that it didn’t make sense, like a personal crisis of big ideas, these metanarratives... i experienced it firsthand, i realized that literature doesn’t work, it doesn’t make sense , she betrayed me, and it was a very bitter realization, and many of my colleagues, professional readers, critics, also talk about it. by the way, i saw what oleksandr mykhet said about this, about this betrayal of literature, and i heard exactly this from tetyana malyarchuk, who experienced all this in austria, and she says that i felt that culture, literature in general, is a big tree that can bloom and can be beautiful, but under it someone can be raped, yes, or killed, that is, this is the feeling that many people had, really , badan, how did you do, what, could you or? so what? it seemed to me in a hurry that i had lost this skill, but now, when i listen

to bohdana, when i look back at my own memories, i realize that i returned to reading quite quickly, because about two weeks after the beginning of the full-scale invasion, i took a very specific book, it was a volume of stories by mykola khvylovy, and i reread it blue-eyed and realized that what used to seem to me to be an exceptional metaphor, some... flight of figurative thinking, is now unfolding here, in the south of the country, in the east of the country, on kyiv region, and in fact, it was a completely new depth of immersion in the text, and the wave helped me to return, and after that it was already quite easy, i began to read very different books, but i returned to texts that, as it seemed to me, explained the nature of the totalitarian system, and thought about how it is possible to do some... reading projects around this, because i wanted more people to think about it as well,

the only book that i could read, for some reason , was a book by serhiy osoka, three lines for maria, i don't understand, probably it's because it 's related to some very deep, childlike peace, yes, and that's it, it's such an escapist thing that i could dive into these stories once and turn off away from the networks and somewhere there to be a little away from. read and walk out, and it was already in the first weeks, that is, i took it like that and it was as if i switched off and returned to reality, that is, for me, for some reason it was the only book and somehow it happened, we have one study, i all the time i am very interested in the fact that ukrainians began to read more during the war, and we have statistics provided by the ukrainian institute, this is from... this will compare the comparison of the 20th year and the 23rd year, if in the 20th

year the reader 8% of people, and this is a terribly simple number, 8% of everything read, then in 23 of 19, and this is a paper book in ukrainian, on the one hand, i look at this 19, and it seems that it is good compared to eight, but they are compared with germany, i mean , the ukrainian institute is compared with germany. in germany, 46% of the population reads, how do you perceive this jump, is it a jump, or is it, how do you, how do you perceive, first of all, this number, well, 20%, that is, it is quite small, but still there are people began to read more, why, do you think, what is it connected with, why did ukrainians take a paper ukrainian book? eh, it seems to me that many people felt that reading - this is actually a very affordable luxury in the conditions of war. ugh, you can ground yourself, and when we talk about that grounding and being in

the moment, it's often a pretty inappropriate thing in a war, it's hard to talk about, it's hard to talk about publicly, but it's so important for mental health i, and people felt this benefit from the book as a physical object, if it is good prose, you can immerse yourself in someone else's story, be in it for a while. and come out of there a little calmer, a little more balanced, even if it's a very complex piece of literature, and it gives you excitement, but still that's how the narrative works, it orders your thinking, and i think a lot of people have started to discover this simple power of reading, and i think it 's very important, in a way the first, escapism, is an opportunity to experience some other experience, to be at least a little bit safe. well

, it has returned to a large extent, and now the fashion for reading is growing, when opinion leaders began to talk about what they read, when some reading projects began to appear in various formats, this definitely affects broad reading circles, finally many simply discovered ukrainian for themselves. culture, in my school years, it was rather a process of weaning away from ukrainian literature, this ideological reading, it does not benefit anyone, while now they return and read books. it turns out in a new way that you can freely talk about the book, interpret the book, see something very personal, very special in it, and there are no wrong opinions about literature. it seems to me that this freedom that reading gives and the freedom to talk about it is an opportunity to find like-minded people on the basis of the book, on the basis of reading as a process, it attracted many to reading, but we are only at

the beginning, of course, in germany, cultural reading programs have existed since the 70s on a permanent basis. based on the main channels, and everything is just beginning with us, so i would not expect a quick result, we have a survey, actually answers to why people read, we have numbers, the ukrainian institute of the future also conducted such a study, so look, 49%, that's almost half, say that reading is a way to keep yourself, especially during the war, actually, that's the same thing, actually, that we're talking about. 42% say that reading teaches you to make better decisions, even in difficult circumstances, 24% say that reading ukrainian literature is a form of resistance, and likewise 21% say that it is support for ukrainian literature, you know, i am impressed by one story, ukrainian people and i often visit different

regions, front-line territories, and places where there were libraries. or destroyed, yes, or robbed by the russians, or some other kind of trouble happened, and we bring books there, and imagine that in kherson, in kherson, there is such an area, an island, in the middle of the dnipro, it is 2 km from the line of contact, that is, it is a red zone, people live there on this island, and they, they are building a library for themselves in .. basements and they said such a phrase, this initiative is called books in shelter, and they said that for them a book is a shelter, that’s just right, it’s such an impressive metaphor, you delivered books books to my father, he is there fighting directly for 2 km, so he was happy to mention these books, and it helps the fighters a lot, it’s fantastic in general, but just that it is, that it is like a metaphor that

becomes, that it is not a weed, it is a reality, an absolutely real fact, and now about the podcast. about the boom in book clubs , literary podcasts and not only about the discussion of ukrainian literature, in general, you very rightly said that talking about books has become not scary, and these podcasts seem to have brought something closer to what seemed so unattainable to us, we gathered, thought with our editor kateryna danylovych, we danylovych we... mentioned what kind of people there are in ukraine in general podcasts or clubs, we mentioned, first of all bohdana’s podcast was taken and read on radiopodil, this is a podcast that used to be, yes, there was station 451 of oleksandr mykhed, there is a smell of the word that you see now, of stasinevich,

yevgeny, literary critic and serhii cherkov , a stand-up artist, is ukrlit. actually, you see, now ukrlit is comedians, as i understand it, they talk about ukrainian literature, about literature in general, there is the book depository of olena huseynova, there is currently untitled bohdana neborak and anastasia evdokimova, there is a cult podcast of volodya yermolenko and tetyana ogarkova, where they talk about culture and literature, in particular, this is what you see, this is rosyslav semkiv talking with vira ageyeva about... about literature, a podcast of crazy authors, there is gogol's mustache, where stand-up artists vadym kyrylenko and nikita rybakov they talk about books, there is a high shelf of bohdan bohdana romantsova, there are aesthetes, there is also a podcast that is on the ukrainian week, there is a repainted fox,

where educator valentina merzhievska and psychologist maria didenko discuss books from this point of view. it's not them, it's bohdana and anastasia, but there is such a psychological context of a podcast about literature. what's the reason for this, well , it's amazing, actually, it's amazing, if you keep in mind that it's been in the last few years, really, what's the reason for this flourishing of these conversations about literature, do you think? i think i listen to almost all of these podcasts, but i am surprised that i listen to almost all of them, i was a guest on half of them, and i think that, first of all, they are quite different, and everyone can choose something of their own, you can listen to something, conditionally saying, it's more difficult, you can listen to how they joke about literature, you can listen to how some specific optics are applied to... literature, you can listen to professors, you can listen to people who deployed tagrolov for the first time yesterday and it hurts, and they are ready to share, and such a variety, i think it is very

healthy some story, a very healthy trend, a bunch of knives, and they are all filled, and each niche has its own audience, bigger, smaller, but everywhere the audience is quite active, and it seems to me that all these absolutely podcasts are made by young people, yes, well rostislav semkiv is also young, they somehow... they bring this young audience closer, that is, you don't get some very clear teachers, they don't start teaching you to understand literature, but they talk to you and you can join the conversation, they will give you an answer in the comments, that is, it's such a free conversation, it's something very ancient, i think, so where did it start, here's where it started, for me i'll tell you for me where it started, for me it started with the club of bibliophages, which... we gathered at the risk of everyone there in masks, who without a mask and

we discussed books, for me this is such a book club, this is how it started, where did it start for you, what do you remember as the beginning that started it all, i have a very personal story with this, i remember such a project that on. .. was really called a podcast, but almost no one remembers it as a podcast, these are cultural meetings that took place in the dziga art center in lviv every thursday. this was done by yurii kucheryavy, a poet and philosopher who is now at the front, and every thursday it was an incredible luxury to come and listen to an interesting person, andriy izdryk recorded it all, and thanks to dziza and the curly in fact. there is a considerable archive of the voices of poets whom today we can only mention, but i immediately have in my head, say, igor remaruk or nazar gonchar, and i

saw how this recording was being made like this here and now, at the same time i understood that after the event , i have the right to ask a question, even if i do not have a specialized education or a certain aplomb that should allow me to speak, let's say at that moment, as a moderator... into a microphone, but still my opinion is worth expressing, and it was terribly inspiring, like me i understand, today, and later formed some kind of conceptual framework of how i imagined potential new projects about literature, and it was actually in the 2000s when it was still starting, so in the 2000s, when it was not yet a podcast, when it was us they didn't know the word podcast yet, the americans knew it, but we didn't even know it, yes... i had a conversation with taras porokhatsky, and i asked him what kind of podcasts you listen to. pay attention to manners, said: what is

this, what is a podcast, that is, i understand what we learned here was four or five years ago, that's how it started to appear here, how did it start for you, bagdan, i have it too, probably from personal history, once upon a time we had a literary and critical site, where i am enough... i actively wrote as a critic and at some point we decided to create a reading club of the plane cent, it was monthly and at first the critics of the plane cent gathered people with a specialized education, but gradually a skeleton of readers began to form, someone came to a specific book, for example, detective, someone came to a certain author, sometimes authors came and presented their book, it was a conversation where we could tell myroslaw laiuk face to face what we liked about his book. what not, and then some fans would come, or those who had something to say, and gradually a kind of circle was formed, when the official part was over, we always went

to the bar and we were always not enough, and i remember how we just sat before the closing, she and yaroslava stricha roxilana were talking about literature and we couldn't talk, and with that's where it all started, probably this story, how you can gather a circle and talk with people you are interested in, even if you don't agree somewhere, even if... you argue fiercely, it doesn't make you enemies, on the contrary, it's a very interesting kind of synergistic exchange, but you and i still talk about such a certain bubble, we seem to belong to this bubble, where it is natural, so that we, we discuss, speak, but we do not have enough, we want to communicate, discuss books, but i feel , that it broke out now in general for the limits of this bubble, as well as those people for whom for whom, let's say... we talked last week with vakhtan kibuladze about what clings so much to, let's say, bulgakov and his kyiv myth, it's because people they just didn't read, they didn't know the myth of ukrainian

kyiv, so... at that time, yes, they didn't read the girl with the girl with the bear, they didn't read dr. serafikus, they didn't read the city of the graveyard, clouds on choilovitska, that is , people who grew up on a different cultural soil, yes, from another cultural humus, russian, soviet, yes, they suddenly, suddenly, became interested in this, this ukrainian language... the tour, yes, and the names that were once not addressed to them, this is how the war did it, this is how it works, how it is, i just understand that it's like the war brought people back to the field, it's ukrainian culture, but still, it's very hard, because here i am, i always say that you love what you know, and what you don't know, you you can't love, and suddenly they...

suddenly they loved it, suddenly they became interested in it and suddenly it became for them as if part of them, their world. it seems to me that we have also become open in our bubble, it is very nice to talk with each other, with people who understand you, to whom you do not need to explain anything, for example, to contextualize some names, it is very nice to sit down and talk as usual, but this change of conversation, changing the type of conversation, the tone, which requires effort and requires... work on yourself, it is very important for us to find new audiences. i know that now in kyiv there are more than 30 reading clubs operating only in libraries, yes, they are small there can be reading clubs, i just have a friend who is interested in this issue, there can be five of them in the micro-district, and our authors come there, we, for example, at the tempera publishing house , now constantly present books in libraries, before there was not even any thought that it is important, but now we understand the need and people are coming there,

very often. just older women and they 're interested in hearing what this guy wrote about the cyberpunk future because it's real contact with the author and it's something new and they're open, actually i think i for example, definitely underestimated by a wider audience, this desire to lock yourself in your ivory towers, it is also very tempting, but you cannot give in to this temptation, very interesting, bohdan, what do you think? how did it, how did it become, well, it became a menstruum, because i understand that i did not underestimate the scope of reading reading clubs, now that i learned the number of reading clubs in the libraries of kyiv, and it is certainly not only in kyiv, in fact there are even more, there is a separate channel that is taken care of by sens bookstore, which is simple collects information about book clubs in

ukraine, and you can see what, for example, is read in clubs in odesa, lviv, kharkiv, in a word, in very different places, and it seems to me that when we talk about this self-discovery, there's such an important decolonial moment here, and it's actually nice to find out that you have more than what you've been told all your life, i kind of try to imagine, you find out that there are, for example , those... the beautiful novels you mentioned 20 -x, which show kyiv that you can go for a walk through the city simply because of these novels, and they will tell you about the capital of your country in the ukrainian language, through some images of ukrainian and european culture, and this is such a pleasant discovery, as it turned out for many. on the other hand, i always try to say that in fact even those people who, let's say, did not read, and not

necessarily, they had to... come, let's say, to reading from russian culture, they could simply not read, but they may well have a certain sensory experience, a certain type of exposure, given them by, say, travel or a love of cinema, which will allow them to be good readers, sometimes even immediately, and this also allows you to see new angles of view on texts that it would seem that we have already re-read dozens of times, and we talk about this city of pidmohylny, as if, you know, such a puck, which... walks along sharpened paths, in fact, one can also see the first, second, fifth, and for this precisely the reader's perspective is needed. i find these reading perspectives terribly interesting, because i understand that people with different educations, different backgrounds, simply different preferences than me, and my rather narrow bubble, they can offer.