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Awareness-raising or a Glossy marketing brochure: what do you expect from...
by Andy Kozlov Flag Pins: Sri Lanka-Ukraine Talk of multiculturalism, globalization or South-South cooperation and what do you get? More than many signs that there is still a lot to be done in...
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Why you wanna look for Slavic linguistics grads to promote your fashion brand...
If you wonder what future holds for a graduate of a Kyiv university majoring in Slavic languages, here is a story of one such person — Nikolai Bazanov. He translates and negotiates on behalf of the...
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There is a dire need for this generation of Nigerians to do what Achebe did...
by Okiri Christopher Raphael who studied at Ambrose Alli University in Ekpoma, Nigeria He passed away less than a month ago. Even HE left this world for a better one now. If there is any one writer...
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Propped by sustainable transportation India-sized Yakutia could become...
When you hear about Yakutia, a republic in the Russian eastern Siberia, chances are you get goose bumps imagining life in one of the coldest places to live in the world. Larger than Argentina and just...
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Many in Nigeria agree that promoting young talent worldwide is vital. Now the...
interview by Samuel Okopi Can you tell us briefly about yourself? Name is Sodiq Oyedeji Alabi; I was born and bred in the peaceful city of Iwo, Osun state where I attended schools, both secular and...
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What you can learn about doing business with Africa, at Kyiv Post Employment...
by Andy Kozlov Being a self-appointed champion of South-South trade, I went to this year’s Kyiv Post Employment Fair with a tricky question. I pulled it out of my sleeve each time greetings were...
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First Imax in Central Africa? Yes, call in Eastern Europeans to launch it well
by Andy Kozlov Back in October 2011, The Hollywood Reporter announced that giant screen exhibitor Imax Corp. has inked a deal with Blue Sky World Entertainment to install a digital IMAX® theatre system...
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Three topics liked by documentary film-makers and presidents of Estonia
by Andy Kozlov As the Baltic Pitching Forum deadline is nearing, I go through the notes, photos and business cards that I brought from last week’s trip to Estonia, my first visit to the Baltics. Will...
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Steppes in Figures #6: 2013 Global Infrastructure, Transportation, Tourism,...
some of the figures are not from 2013 but were put into context of the 2013 events by our team for you to decide how to interprete the correlation between the stats. $ in most cases stands for USD...
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UN Volunteer helps Ukrainian Highlight Pictures to finetune work with film...
reprinted from Highlight Pictures website As the film industry becomes increasingly globalized, film-making in Ukraine still suffers from parochial attitudes. A solution to the problem can be found by...
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Apply your way in! Borders are no longer barriers for globe-trotting...
Creative hub in Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland, Northern Media Culture Association Magneetti invites artists to submit works for the media art exhibition IMPORT/EXPORT, which will take place in...
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Zimbabweans put indigenous readers onto Amazon
reprinted from the Zimbabwe reads website Worldreader, an US NGO that provides digital books to children and families in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing nations using e-reader and existing...
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Zimbabwe reads promotes Tshwao, unrecorded language of under 50 speakers....
There are still 4.4bn people not online, according to the International Telecommunication Union’s Measuring the Information Society report. Rob Minto of the Financial Times dwells on the reminder from...
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Ukraine meets Nollywood on the pages of 2013 Disbook Africa
by Nikolai Bazanov One could think of a long-term co-production strategy but, really, the idea of the Ukrainian-Nigerian film Feathered Dreams (trailer) is ‘the right people getting together at the...
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Steppes in Figures #7: What Eastern European media people get to learn at...
Sourced from Disbook Africa #2 and 3, by Basic Lead, organizers of Discop Africa and Discop West Asia media markets A few lessons from an African media veteran, Mike Dearham, Senior Vice President at...
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Not-your-usual faces of African diplomacy
Last month, Zimbabwean state-funded press reported an interesting fact that prompted us to take a closer look at the faces representing African diplomacy. Zimbabwean Ambassadors Hilda Suka-Mafudze and...
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Successful designer in Syria and internationally, asylum-seeker in Ukraine....
by Illya M. Labunka Hussam Al-Yamani arrived in Ukraine just over one year ago (October 2012) as an asylum seeker when he was forced to flee his homeland during the ongoing civil war in Syria....
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TV and film help UNHCR to raise refugee issues awareness in China, Ukraine as...
by Andy Kozlov “I’m asking the many gifted storytellers in our community to help us tell our stories. Together I think we can help the world see and believe in a better future,” quote from...
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From Sochi Olympics to 2018 World Cup: Ukrainian high-speed trains for Russia...
As Chris Weafer, a senior partner at Moscow-based research consultancy Macro-Advisory, suggests in a 2013 end-of-year post on FT’s beyondbricks: For the next two months one policy priority will eclipse...
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Struggling to organically build a large user base, who is buying into what in...
Information from Barron’s Emerging Markets Daily section The Zürich-based multinational financial services company Credit Suisse lists three reasons why corporations will pursue acquisitions this year:...
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