cities of novosibirsk are ideal offered ukrainian zhytomyr to become twin cities, the mayor of zhytomyr accepted the invitation, the idea of ​​such a twinning was initiated by the ukrainian union of indianspected, the first project of twin cities will be to help ukrainian defenders with prosthetics, ukrainian volunteers have already started collecting funds for the implementation of this project, the first such fundraising will take place tomorrow on defender of ukraine day in general iryna matviychuk talked about the work of the ukrainian union of indians with volunteers when, in march of this year, two ukrainian women svitlana and maria decided to create a ukrainian organization in indiana, they did not even imagine that in six months they would establish direct contact with the governor of the state and brew ukrainian beer for americans, they say that at the beginning they just wanted to create some corner where ukrainians could come to dinner parties to discuss the news from home and sympathize to each other, i am a ukrainian community, but there was no organization that brought all the people together, and in order for there to be celebrations of our e-e holidays, some e-e vechornyt

ukrainians, russians, americans, indians, whoever. i just want to ask, because, you know, your career has, as i said, mirrored a lot of stages in the life of what was the soviet unionme to power in 1985, introduced glasnost as an opening—up of russian society. we saw the economic reforms under perestroika, and underground bands such as yours, aquarium, could at last perform and record legally. so did you really think then that russia was at a turning point, that it had changed for good, for the better? yes, i was living under this illusion for about a day—and—a—half somewhere in �*91. oh, very short. yeah, then i looked around and i understood that nothing will change. time shows that i was right. but it doesn't mean that we shouldn't care about this country, because it's a great country, and it has a lot of great people. it has a lot of terrible people, as well, as any other country. but myjob is to provide for people who want to get better. but how worried are you? because we are seeing, obviously, a huge deterioration in relations between russia and the west, and indeed many other countries. you know, we've even seen lukewarm support now or words from china and