Tatiana Zhurzhenko: The fifth Kharkiv
In February 2015, I am back in Kharkiv, my home town where I grew up and lived half of my life. My last visit was more than two years ago, when Kharkiv was still a sleepy, apolitical provincial town, mentioned, if at all, in Western media due to Yulia Tymoshenko's imprisonment in the local hospital. The dramatic events of the last year I experienced mainly via social networks. With the downfall of Viktor Yanukovych's regime and the beginning of the so-called "Russian spring", as violence on the streets of Kharkiv began escalating, I could hardly sleep for weeks.