Issue №15 Est. 1999 15 November – 15 December 2018 The newest trend in music – vinyl, and the best places to fi nd it Clean out your closet and work on your karma Can’t fi nd your monthly What’s On? Let us show you where to go Identities Examined 5 Years On Contents | Issue 15 15 November – 15 December 2018 Issue №15 Est. 1999 15 November – 15 December 2018 The newest trend in music – vinyl, and the best places to fi nd it Clean out your closet and work on your karma Can’t fi nd your monthly What’s On? Let us show you where to go Identities Examined 5 Years On On the Cover Maty Revolution, 2013, Private Collection Ola Rondiak Identity Interrupted on screen 4 WO Words from the Editor 24 What’s Important We remember Your closet doesn’t have to be Nina’s pick this month cluttered. Let us help you help 6 What’s New others by clearing out Saying goodbye to your Where does IT fit in with the State, a tennis star, ratings – 26 What’s Happening favourite clothes can be hard good and bad, and more Ukrainian stars don an array of unless you know they can still incredible Ukr-duds for charity 8 What About the Guys serve other people (and save Your barber is actually you’re 28 What’s All the Fuss the planet!). Turn to page 24 best friend A collection of bits and bobs for those on the run and discover six hands-on 10 What to Wear ideas to revive your old We’ll keep you well and 32 What’s On the Menu fashionably dressed this A new venue on the Kyiv scene garments autumn featuring a small array of duck-dishes – Utinyie Istorii, Lera’s pick this month 12 What’s Trending plus a list of great steakhouses Vinyl is back – What’s On’s Dino in the city good to fill anyone’s “New russian wave” - what Zulumovic makes the rounds belly is it and why is it so popular? 14 What’s On this Month 36 What’s in Focus We look at the most famous All you need to know, broken Photo coverage of events from down by category, about what around Kyiv in the last month. groups working in this vein you need to see and do in Kyiv Did we catch you? and try to figure it out for the next 30 days, including an inspired art exhibition and some fabulous Brit flicks 22 What’s Ahead A few top events to put in your calendar The Team: Contact details: Registration information: © All materials published in What’s On Kyiv Originally founded in 1999, What’s On Kyiv business community, both expatriate and Lana Nicole Niland Yuliya Hudoshnyk For general enquiries, submissions, What’s On Kyiv magazine is registered with are the unconditional intellectual property is an English language monthly magazine local, and provides brief news articles on Paul Niland Tyoma Myronenko complaints, or comments write to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine as a print of Outpost Publishing and as such are with a goal to inform residents and visitors events of relevance to Kyiv and Ukraine and Jared Morgan Anna Romanchuk [email protected] media magazine, License Number 22834 protected by Ukrainian and international to Kyiv of events in the entertainment and the wider region. Lee Reaney Igor Hodokov To advertise in What’s On Kyiv, contact – 12734P dated 7 August 2107. This mag- copyright laws. No materials from this cultural life of the city. As well as providing Alina Smolina Andrew Burns [email protected] azine is published by Outpost Publishing, a magazine, or the associated website, advice, guidance, and listings of live mu- Anna Azarova DoubleK LLC Team company duly incorporated in Ukraine. may be reproduced without the express sic, theatre, nightlife, sporting events and Natalia Kurtyak Lera Zdanovych permission of Outpost Publishing. more, What’s On also interacts with the Nina Bohush Serzh Velychanskyi Dino Zulumovic 3 From the Editor Editor-in-Chief Lana Nicole Niland This is an important time of year for the country, marking, as it does, the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity. Not just an annu- al commemoration this year, 2018 marks five years since that fateful night on Maidan when students wrapped up to spend a cold night peacefully protesting the then president’s decision not to sign the Association Agreement with the EU. What would have fizzled out eventually turned into a free-for-all as darkly-dressed baton-bear- ing thugs took the opportunity to beat the living daylights out of a handful of defenceless kids. For many, this night marked the beginning. Months of assembly on the capital’s main square followed, with more and more people flooding to the streets from all across the country – Lviv, Ivan-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Simfero- pil, and more. Apathy, like an annoying uncle no one enjoys be- ing around though would miss if he ever got his act together, is a condition that has afflicted Ukrainians for years. They were not going to allow their children to be trodden on however. So began EuroMaidan. Thinking back, it seems surreal that five years have passed since those events that have changed a country forever. Work continued and daily life went on during those dark days, but they began to include regular walks along Khreschatyk chanting ‘slava Ukraini’ and long congregations around the ‘chick on a stick’. When the merry atmosphere of ‘Maidan’ tea and cabbage soup Saturdays “Cobblestone and rubber dissipated, cobblestone and rubber tyre walls enveloped us deni- zens, keeping us safe from fire, water cannons, and steel armoured tyre walls enveloped us vehicles charging like bulls. What is most noteworthy for me about this time is not the fact that denizens, keeping us safe Ukrainians stood up. There is a spirited determination in this na- tion that has been around for centuries, regardless of the “drunk from fire, water cannons, uncle” syndrome. What is remarkable is that, if not all, then a large majority of us have fundamentally changed because we stood up. The after effects are great and necessary, as we move away from and steel armoured vehicles that debilitating Soviet system so prevalent in so many parts of dai- ly life. But the real change is happening from the inside out. charging like bulls” Even those of us who aren’t really Ukrainian but consider ourselves national adoptees are different – I may look the same but I am no longer the person I was before EuroMaidan. To believe you are a drop in the ocean – крапля в океані – is one thing. But to un- derstand how powerful that ocean is when all of its drops move in unison is quite another. Starting to move together, great things are in our future. But we can only get there by remembering how far we’ve come. 4 What’s On Issue 15 15 November - 15 December 2018 We're with you Kyiv, and we remember November 2013 - February 2014 What’s New Andriy Dovbenko Code: The Deputy Captain of Ukrainian Exports al services is the path forward, especially where countries are aiming to develop Even at the age of 27, Ukraine can hardly By 2016 however, the curve started creep- a more secure future. Of course, if the be called a “nation of startups”, as nei- ing upwards. And in the first four months future is clear and there are few hands ther the president nor the Ministry of of this year, we had already exported raised “against”, then the idea of what is Economic Trade and Development have $15.5 billion, which is a 13% increase on “secure” can be deciphered. Like in con- made this a priority. the same period in 2017. Looking at these struction, however, IT and its production Regardless, we will reject this pessimism, figures, IT export volumes were only are not only difficult to estimate for tech- as real steps are being taken in this direc- beaten by the export of steel pipe, and nical specialists, but for workers of related tion. In fact, a stratum of IT specialists made up more than 20% of Ukrainian professions also – designers, accountants, is forming, which, according to a recent exports. Before you tire of these figures, lawyers (which is good to hear), and so on. study by experts from the IT Ukraine let me add just a couple more examples. In addition, more than a quarter of em- Association and the Office of Effective ployees of IT firms have no relation to ac- Regulation, has ensured that in terms of IN UKRAINE, THE “BRAIN tual IT. As a result, the following picture export, the Ukrainian IT industry takes ECONOMY” ACCOUNTS FOR: emerges: an industry that does not re- an important second place. • 4.1 billion UAH in taxes in 2014-2017 quire government incentives, but simply Ponder this news. IT firms do not export paid by IT companies. The amount of asks that the government does not inter- grain, metal, or umbrellas. They sell the taxation, according to the State Fiscal fere with their work, bringing the country result of mental labour, which is some- Service, has increased annually by money, buying it a ticket to a competitive thing that does not depend on the price 27%, and 2018 will be no exception club of advanced societies, and in the of raw materials or any other factors that • An additional 3.2 billion UAH paid in process creating a post-industrial state.