Marina Stupak

Produced by Marina Stupak

• 27 March 2020

  Ukraine's Senior Gamers Defeat Stress, Stereotypes

  They may have grandchildren and occasionally garden. But Kyiv’s Ageless Shooters also have a devastating ability to play CounterStrike: Global Offensive. And these Ukrainian seniors, filmed before Ukraine's COVID-19 lockdown, are not going to let stereotypes about the elderly get in their way.

• 19 July 2019

  Kyiv’s Museum Of Election Trash: How Buckwheat, Bottle Openers, And Bay Leaves Can Buy A Vote

  In corruption-plagued Ukraine, it’s known as “sowing buckwheat” – handing out presents, from buckwheat to bottle openers, to secure voter support. To remind Ukrainians ahead of this year’s parliamentary vote that “buckwheat” comes with a heavy price – the loss of a say in government -- the election watchdog Chesno (Fairly) and Ukrainskaya Pravda newspaper set up a Museum of Election Trash at Kyiv’s National Museum of the History of Ukraine. The exhibits showcase campaign handouts since 1991.

• 24 April 2019

  Portrait Of A Voter: Whom Will Timoshenko Voters Support?

  With no place for former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko in Ukraine's presidential-elections runoff, one family of avid Timoshenko supporters in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson discussed with Current Time who will get their vote instead.

• 16 April 2019

  Portrait Of A Voter: Whom Will Timoshenko Voters Support?

  It's a question that interests many on the eve of Ukraine's April 21 presidential-election runoff: Will supporters of Yulia Timoshenko, who finished third in the polls, switch their allegiances to Acting President Petro Poroshenko or anti-status-quo candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy? Current Time spoke with one family in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson to find out.