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Ukrainian World
‘Ukrainian World’ was a platform led by the Open Dialog Foundation in cooperation with Euromaidan Warsaw. Operating for more than two years before its closure, it rendered assistance to refugees from the East. Consultations and meetings, designed to help refugees find a job in Poland, or a school for refugees’ children, were carried out in the premises of the centre. It also offered psychological and legal assistance and organised the Polish language courses.
‘Ukrainian World’ was not only a support centre. It became the centre for Ukrainian culture in the very heart of Warsaw. In this centre, we promoted cultural events, such as meetings, book and film promotions, exhibitions and concerts.
The reason for its closure in June 2016 was the financial constraints of the Foundation and the lack of opportunities to develop parallel projects in the current premises, which would enable the financing of the support.
See Photo Gallery, displaying pictures of ‘Ukrainian World’.
On 27 May, during the most important sporting event since Euro 2012 at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and FC Sevilla met in the Europa League final. Those who could not cheer the teams on at the stadium attended the ‘Ukrainian World’ centre in order to watch the…
More than 1,500 people visited the 'Ukrainian World' centre at 63 Nowy Swiat Street in Warsaw during Museums night on 16 May 2015. The last guests left the premises long after midnight – and these were Warsaw residents.
On 26th March, the Ukrainian World centre hosted a concert by Svitlana Grigorjeva entitled Music of the Heart.
The Ukrainian World in Warsaw held a meeting with a Ukrainian delegation of individuals responsible for lustration. The delegation included both representatives of the government and civil society.
The ‘Ukrainian World’ centre held a meeting with the famous Ukrainian journalist and publicist, Vitaliy Portnikov, during which he spoke about the inevitable defeat of Russia and the consolidation of the Ukrainian people
"The influence of Structure. I am the world, a huge construction made of small pieces"– is the title of Boris Gavryliuk’s exhibition from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, whose vernissage was held at Ukrainian World.
On Thursday, 16 October, Ukrainian World officially opened an exhibition of paintings entitled ‘Siblings’ by Marek Krauss. Apart from the paintings, poems by Natalia Petrzak-Krauss also featured in the exhibition.
The help centre for Ukrainians hosted a performance by the ‘Ot Vinta’ band on the afternoon of Saturday, 14th June.
On Sunday, June 1, Ukraiński Świat in Warsaw celebrated International Children’s Day. The event was organised by the Ukrainian Women’s Club and supported by the Nasz Wybór Foundation and the Open Dialog Foundation.
Media about Ukrainian World
- Will Warsaw have the ‘Heroes of Maidan’ street? Leading Polish media on the ODF’s initiative
- ‘Ukrainian World’ features in a reportage by The Guardian
- ‘Save ‘Ukrainian World!’’. Gazeta Wyborcza on the threat of closure faced by the refugee assistance centre
- “This place is teeming with Ukrainian life’. Newsweek on immigrants and volunteers at ‘Ukrainian World’
- Ukrainian news portals about the Military Post Office at ‘Ukrainian World’
- TVN Uwaga: Who are the Ukrainians residing in Poland?
- Wyborcza.pl: Humanitarian organisations plead for help for eastern Ukraine
- Naszemiasto.pl: Ukrainians vote in Warsaw for their new parliament
- TVP on the Foundation’s Project – “Ukrainian World“
Gallery
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Debate: 13 hostages of Putin: How can we release them?
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Another visit by ‘Fair Ukraine’ to ‘Ukrainian World’
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The Dnipro – Sevilla game at ‘Ukrainian World’
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Muratbek Ketebayev and Nikolay Koblyakov at ‘Ukrainian World’
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What game is Poroshenko playing? Vitaliy Kupriy’s visit
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‘Fair Ukraine’ in Warsaw
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Cooperation with ‘Niebo’ [‘Heaven’] Charity Shop
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Kalman Mizsei about reform in Ukraine
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Bogdan Romaniuk at ‘Ukrainian World’
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Meeting with Serhiy Leschenko, the author of the book ‘The Mezhyhirya Syndrome’
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An evening with Mustafa Nayyem – a journalist and MP
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Belarusian flag on Ukrainian World’s building on the Day of Independence