ukraine@war

ukraine@war

Day 555

Genocide was not discussed

Sep 01, 2023
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Work on one of the world’s flattest cobblestone road segments has been completed in Kyiv (Photo c/o abdymok)

During that rather gruesome thing we went through last year there was a lot of content piped through YouTube to the fickle and aging Gen X audience. The percentage of garbage was high, but in every dumpster there lies the chance to find, say, an unopened bottle of beer (which, along with the return deposit, can practically rain good fortune).

By far my best and most surprising discovery was coincidentally a show about motorcycles and home renovations, Pasha’s Простой Пацан, the Ukrainian version of Camarata’s property maintenance channel, with several episodes about evacuating two-wheelers from Russia-occupied Mariupol.

Kazantsky’s and Tsymbaliuk’s channels, as well as Portnikov’s, are in the mix and sometimes entertaining. Also, Feigin, Grem, Latynina and Pastukhovs’ Kitchen. I’ve lost track of what people are saying on the radio, except for Internet interviews on Novoe Vremya…

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