The Kyiv Independent’s Editor-in-Chief Olga Rudenko received this year’s special prize of the Hanns-Joachim Friedrichs Award, recognizing excellence in journalism.
Rain from about two weeks ago has enabled mosquito eggs to hatch and the insects to come out in full force, according to Ben Matthews, assistant professor in the department of zoology at the University of British Columbia.
Exactly a year ago, on a similar scorching June day, I interviewed the editor of The Kyiv Independent, 34-year-old Olga Rudenko, and her CEO, Daryna Shevchenko, at the Founders Forum tech conference in Soho House, Oxfordshire. The luxury of our surroundings made only starker the separation between what was happening to them in Ukraine and the sheltered lives of those attending.