Special thanks to my co-author, Julia Rokicka Like the traveller in Robert Frost’s famous poem The Road Not Taken, Ukraine is now poised between two roads, one pro-European Union and the other pro-Russian. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its own independence, Ukrainian society has been divided, […]

A new and terrible danger is heading our way. It’s ready to annihilate all good family values and the bonds between all loving men and women in Poland. This hydra has many heads – gays, feminists and opponents of domestic violence against women. But the root of this monster lies […]

‘I just sold organic honey from Brazil to Israel and now I’m working on selling wine from Spain to Ukraine’. This is how my friend Kiril describes his working day. Kiril is  is a sales and business development consultant in a company he manages with a partner. It mainly operates […]

Imagine Red Square in Moscow with the colorful snow-covered onion domes of St. Basil’s Cathedral, the red bricks of the Kremlin, and the centuries-old cobblestones. They have all witnessed the October Revolution, the defeat of Tsarist Russia and countless military parades. Now imagine a giant 30-meter long two storey high […]

Dark, smoggy, poisonous … Yes, welcome to many parts of Poland. This is the only EU country whose economy actually grew during the recent recession. But there is a pricetag to be paid for this and that pricetag is the health of the Polish people. Never mind can growth and […]