“I don’t really like Europe. In Europe, 99 percent of things are finished; here, there is work to be done,” says Oksana Olinik, standing in the small Soviet-era shop she and her husband Orest have just opened in the village of Khrystanivka in east-central Ukraine. Behind her are five rows of shelves she’s populating with books – the building blocks of the village’s first library.
Global Voices: Meet the activist trying to bring Ukraine’s villages online
Residents pull trolleys, as they walk on the road near the village of Mykytivka, eastern Ukraine, on Oct. 23, 2015.
