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The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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The Ukrainian Serengeti: Photo Essay
24 Apr 2015 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Askania-Nova, in southern Ukraine, is the oldest steppe reserve in the world. Home to some of the last remaining patches of virgin steppe and a variety of wild animals, it is now threatened by war.
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Putin’s Peninsula Is a Lonely Island
06 Feb 2015 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
No tourists, frightened Tatars, and Russians have taken all the jobs. Welcome to Crimea in winter.
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The Theater Tsar: Art and Politics in Occupied Crimea
21 Jan 2015 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Two performances seem to be taking place in parallel: one inside the theater with actors, and another in the streets outside with soldiers in green balaclavas and no recognizable insignia.
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Dashed Hopes in Gay Ukraine
19 Jan 2015 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Ukainians thought that, post-Maidan, their country would start to look more like Europe. But for members of the LGBT community, things may have even gotten worse.
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A Failed Soviet Irrigation Project Brings Eco-apocalypse to SW Ukraine
29 Dec 2014 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
In 1976 it looked like a good idea: divert the waters of the Danube into a salt-water lagoon on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. But the result has been a human and environmental disaster on an epic scale.
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Crimea’s Drug Users in a Predicament
16 Dec 2014 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
When Russia annexed Crimea in March of this year, it closed down all OST (opioid substitution therapy) programs. As a result, drug users in Crimea have found themselves in a serious predicament.
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Crimea: With or Without Drugs
15 Dec 2014 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Georgii, a resident of Crimea, struggled with drug addiction for years before finding a solution in opioid substitution therapy (OST). But when Russia annexed the peninsula, it dismantled the program.
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Transgender Crimea
03 Dec 2014 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Pasha is a transgender person from Sevastopol, Crimea, but Russia’s annexation of the peninsula earlier this year threw his whole life into chaos. Today he is a refugee in Kiev.
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Protecting Ukraine’s Dniester Delta
07 Nov 2014 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
One of the great European rivers, the Dniester has been heavily exploited in the past century and today faces numerous environmental threats. One man has taken up the task of saving it.
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Ukraine’s Dead Sea
04 Nov 2014 by Dimiter Kenarov / No Comments
Kuyalnik Estuary is a large brackish lake on the outskirts of Odessa, Ukraine, and home to one of the country’s oldest sanatoriums. Today it is on the brink of environmental disaster.
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